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November 1, 2015
A second suspect wanted in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of the Copperas Cove Walmart store that left one man dead was in custody late Friday afternoon.
An arrest warrant was issued earlier Friday for Terrence Len Daniel, Jr., 21, of Killeen
He turned himself in to Killeen police Friday afternoon, authorities said.
Tadarius Lavonte Davis, 20 of Killeen, was jailed late Thursday afternoon, charged with murder in the shooting early Wednesday in the parking lot of the Copperas Cove Walmart store that left Thomas Gene Smethers, 24, also of Killeen, dead.
Davis was charged with murder at around 3:45 p.m. Thursday, police said in a brief press release that identified Davis as “one of the suspects…in this incident.”
He was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bond on Friday.
Earlier Thursday authorities said a man whom they described as a person of interest was in custody.
A booking photo of Davis won’t be released until he’s been give his magistrate’s warning, police said.
Smethers died in a local hospital after officers found him early Wednesday lying in the store’s parking lot.
He was “a good father and a loving man” his family said Thursday.
Smethers moved about a month ago from Corpus Christi to Killeen because the cost of living was less, his family said.
He was working and doing plumbing on the side, the family said.
His girlfriend and the couple’s son and two daughters were planning to move to Killeen to rejoin him.
Coryell County District Attorney Dustin Boyd had high praise for both Copperas Cove and Killeen police investigators who he said worked together at a high level to bring the case to an accelerated close.
Investigators from the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers were involved in the case as well, Boyd said.
“I just can’t say enough about how professional the police in Copperas Cove and Killeen were in working this case,” Boyd said.
It’s a case that is extremely complicated because it involves more than one jurisdiction, several locations and perhaps several people, he said.
Boyd was at a Killeen motel Wednesday night when a Killeen police SWAT team surrounded the building in an attempt to serve a search warrant on a second-floor room that had some connection to the deadly shooting early Wednesday morning in the parking lot of the Copperas Cove Walmart store.
Officers entered the room after using a loudspeaker to order anyone who might have been side to come out.
It appeared that nobody was in the room.
The SWAT team left at around 6:45 p.m., but other officers remained at the motel Wednesday night, evidently processing the room for evidence, but authorities weren’t talking about the search.
The officers wrapped up the search at around 7:30 p.m. and they and Boyd were leaving the scene.
Boyd would not say Thursday what, if anything, was seized from the motel room.
Officers from Killeen and Copperas Cove arrived at the High Five Inn on South W.S. Young Drive at around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and remained there throughout the day until the SWAT team arrived just after 6 p.m.
No further details have been released.
