UPDATE: Nov. 10, 2015, 5:13 PM ET
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a person of interest in the non-fatal shooting of a Texas judge last week has been charged with murder in an unrelated Houston slaying.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo says 28-year-old Chimene Hamilton Onyeri was charged Tuesday in the Houston killing and is being held in jail. Acevedo didn’t give details of that case and the criminal complaint wasn’t accessible online yet.
He says Onyeri is a person of interest but not charged in Friday’s attack on Judge Julie Kocurek, who was wounded as she arrived at her Austin home.
The Austin American-Statesman reports that Travis County prosecutors filed a motion Aug. 28 seeking to have Onyeri’s probation revoked after authorities in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, charged him with the unauthorized use of a debit card. Kocurek was considering that motion.
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