DESOTO, Texas – Capital murder charges have been lodged against a Dallas-area man in connection with the shooting deaths of two former Hope residents in September, 2009.
Bryan Chisholm, 33, of Sasche, Texas, was arrested by DeSoto, Texas, police and the U. S. Marshal's Service at his residence on May 6 in connection with the murders of Cedric Dewayne Johnson, 40, of Sasche, Texas, and David H. Perkins, 36, of Dallas, Texas.
DeSoto Police Lieutenant Dustin Munn said Chisholm was arrested without incident under a capital murder warrant and has since been indicted on a single count of capital murder.
Lt. Munn said capital murder is charged in Texas as a single offense when two or more homicides are alleged to have been committed during the same act.
“He was part of the initial investigation, and some other facts came to light recently that allowed us enough probable cause to arrest and charge him,” Munn said.
The investigation into the shootings lead officers to believe that both killings were drug related, Munn said.
“Our previous belief that this involved a narcotics transaction is still intact,” he said. “There is no other reason to believe it was anything other than that.”Investigators had been put off the track in January when two “persons of interest” had to be released from custody after charges unrelated to the murders themselves, but connected to the crime scene, were quashed.
Chisholm had previously been investigated for evidence tampering in connection with the case, according to DeSoto Police Captain Gary Perkins, who is not related to either victim.
“We just didn't have enough to put the murder on him originally; evidence tampering and other charges, but we had another person who had knowledge of the transaction,” Capt. Perkins said. “We still believe it was a drug transaction gone bad. They made arrangements to buy the drugs and we believe it was the case that he did not have the drugs and he just shot them to rob them.”
Johnson and David Perkins were found shot to death at close range sitting inside a gray Toyota registered to Johnson. The vehicle was discovered parked in a wooded area at the entrance to the Windmill Hill Preserve in a secluded area east of North Duncanville Road and U. S. Highway 67.
Police said the murders were discovered when a passerby reported the car to police early on the morning of Sept. 7, 2009.
Munn said that no trial date has been set for Chisholm, and that he remains in jail in Dallas County on a parole revocation stemming from a conviction for attempted murder in Louisiana.
“That parole has been transferred to Texas, post-Katrina,” Munn said.
He said a $1 million bond was also set against Chisholm in connection with the capital murder charge.
Munn said no other arrests related to the killings were anticipated “at this time.”
Police have declined to say how much money was believed to have been taken from Johnson and David Perkins in the robbery.
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DESOTO, Texas – Capital murder charges have been lodged against a Dallas-area man in connection with the shooting deaths of two former Hope residents in September, 2009.
Bryan Chisholm, 33, of Sasche, Texas, was arrested by DeSoto, Texas, police and the U. S. Marshal's Service at his residence on May 6 in connection with the murders of Cedric Dewayne Johnson, 40, of Sasche, Texas, and David H. Perkins, 36, of Dallas, Texas.
DeSoto Police Lieutenant Dustin Munn said Chisholm was arrested without incident under a capital murder warrant and has since been indicted on a single count of capital murder.
Lt. Munn said capital murder is charged in Texas as a single offense when two or more homicides are alleged to have been committed during the same act.
“He was part of the initial investigation, and some other facts came to light recently that allowed us enough probable cause to arrest and charge him,” Munn said.
The investigation into the shootings lead officers to believe that both killings were drug related, Munn said.
“Our previous belief that this involved a narcotics transaction is still intact,” he said. “There is no other reason to believe it was anything other than that.”Investigators had been put off the track in January when two “persons of interest” had to be released from custody after charges unrelated to the murders themselves, but connected to the crime scene, were quashed.
Chisholm had previously been investigated for evidence tampering in connection with the case, according to DeSoto Police Captain Gary Perkins, who is not related to either victim.
“We just didn't have enough to put the murder on him originally; evidence tampering and other charges, but we had another person who had knowledge of the transaction,” Capt. Perkins said. “We still believe it was a drug transaction gone bad. They made arrangements to buy the drugs and we believe it was the case that he did not have the drugs and he just shot them to rob them.”
Johnson and David Perkins were found shot to death at close range sitting inside a gray Toyota registered to Johnson. The vehicle was discovered parked in a wooded area at the entrance to the Windmill Hill Preserve in a secluded area east of North Duncanville Road and U. S. Highway 67.
Police said the murders were discovered when a passerby reported the car to police early on the morning of Sept. 7, 2009.
Munn said that no trial date has been set for Chisholm, and that he remains in jail in Dallas County on a parole revocation stemming from a conviction for attempted murder in Louisiana.
“That parole has been transferred to Texas, post-Katrina,” Munn said.
He said a $1 million bond was also set against Chisholm in connection with the capital murder charge.
Munn said no other arrests related to the killings were anticipated “at this time.”
Police have declined to say how much money was believed to have been taken from Johnson and David Perkins in the robbery.
