Ft.
Hood attack ends at Cow bayou near I-35
Killeen
– Conditions on Pecan Creek Road in rural Killeen are tense.
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| Front gate at 2383 Pecan Creek Road, Killeen |
Approaching the front gate of the home of a Killeen man whose
associate is accused of trying to kill him with a handgun, the
scene gets spooky when the automatic gate slowly creeks open and the
shape of trucks and trailers emerge from the brush amid dense fog.
Neighbors
flip on lights, then appear in their yards to observe. They are heard
saying, “I haven't seen that vehicle stop there before. Wonder what
those guys are doing...”
Cassyne
Malveaux, 32, has a residential history that includes addresses near
three major Army bases – Ft. Lewis, Washington, Ft. Collins,
Colorado, and Ft. Hood, Texas.
According
to a comprehensive data base used by lawmen, skip tracers, bond
recovery agents and repo men, he lives at 2383 Pecan Creek Road with
others, including Kathleen Malveaux, whose date of birth is in 1955.
The
story of how and why Malveaux left his hilltop home built on a
brushy lot on a dead end winding country lane that branches off FM
2670 at Hwy 195 in a fashionable neighborhood near Ft. Hood, only to
be found unconscious and unable to communicate due to a .22 caliber
bullet wound to his head where he lay on a jogging path in a rural
location near Lorena took detectives a few days to piece together.
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| Narrow driveway at 1277 Hatch Road |
A
caretaker who found him bleeding at first thought he was dead. When
Emergency Medical Technicians determined he'd been shot and was
still alive, they rushed him to a Waco hospital where surgeons saved
his life, an apparent victim of a gangland hit, shot with a small
caliber bullet in the head, dumped and left for dead. As near as
police could tell, he'd been there overnight, drifting in and out of
consciousness.
Said
Chief McLennan County Sheriff's Office Deputy Matt Cawthon, “That
victim sure didn't want to talk. He wasn't saying a word, at first.”
As
the days went by and Malveaux began to recover, Detective Steve
Janics teamed up with Killeen Police Department detective Kevin
Tramp, who used his knowledge of Malveaux's known associates to
determine that he had been seen with Johnell Lewis Britton, 32, on
the previous day.
In
an affidavit of probable cause, Detective Janics declared that
Detective Tramp located Britton in the Bell County Jail, where he was
locked up on other charges, and was able to “develop” Britton as
a suspect.
According
to Deputy Cawthon, a veteran of the Texas Rangers and a former
employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional
Division seconded to the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force at Waco, the
story emerged as both men began to tell investigators they had
traveled to a Lorena address near 1277 Hatch Road, which intersects
Old Bethany Rd. just off I-35 and rapidly descends to the banks of
North Cow Bayou.
“It's
not really our case, but it happened here, so we get it and we're
going to prosecute it.”
Before
the shooting took place, the men planned a home invasion-burglary,
and as they searched for the targeted residence, which they were
finding diifficult to locate in the dark amid the dense foliage near
a narrow driveway at 1277 Hatch Road, reflexes got the better of
Britton.
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| A mirror warns of approaching cars at 1277 Hatch Road |
During
a jailhouse interview in Bell County, Detective Tramp determined that
“Britton shot Malveaux multiple times in the head because Britton
thought that Malveaux was going to shoot Britton.” A report notes
that Malveaux was dressed in black sweat pants, a black t-shirt and
black underwear.
Detective
Janics obtained an arrest warrant for Aggravated Assault with a
Deadly Weapon from McLennan County Justice of the Peace W.H.
Peterson, and a magistrate charged Britton at the McLennan County
Courthouse on October 22.
The
offense is a second degree felony. Judge Peterson set no bond.
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