A Killeen woman who admitted to pulling a firearm on a tow truck driver who was repossessing her vehicle last year was sentenced last week to 90 days in jail.
Sharell Lashone Walker, 30, already had pleaded guilty on Oct. 6, to a second-degree felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. On Friday in the 264th Judicial District Court, Judge Paul LePak decided to place Walker on a period of four years of deferred adjudication probation. As conditions of probation, Walker was ordered to spend 90 days in the Bell County Jail, which she already has served, and to write a letter of apology, according to Bell County court records.
Walker was indicted on Feb. 8.
Killeen police on Sept. 12, 2022, were dispatched to a residence in the city after a 911 caller reported that a woman was pointing a gun at them while they were repossessing a vehicle, according to an arrest affidavit.
“Officers arrived and spoke with (a man) who stated that while he was repossessing a vehicle, a female had pointed a gun in his face,” police said. “(The man) also stated that his tow truck was equipped with cameras that would capture the interaction. Also on scene was the 911 caller…who had been assisting (the man) in the repossession of the vehicle. (The caller) confirmed that the female had pulled up in another vehicle, blocked the tow truck in, gotten out of the vehicle and then pointed a gun at (the man), demanding he stop the tow.”
Police spoke with Walker, who was at the scene. She admitted to confronting the men but denied having a firearm.
The victim later provided police with the videos from the tow truck.
Although the video did not have audio, “the cameras showed a vehicle pull up in front of the tow truck and a female get out of the passenger seat and point a handgun at (the driver),” according to the affidavit. “The female can be seen wearing the exact same outfit as what Walker was wearing when officers spoke with (her) after the assault. During the altercation, Walker pulled back the slide on the firearm and then pointed it back at (the man).”
In an unrelated case, a Killeen man was sentenced last week to months behind bars on two felony charges after he burglarized separate large stores in Harker Heights and Killeen in 2019.
Michael Terrance Kelker, 38, already had pleaded guilty on July 20, in the 27th Judicial District Court.
On Wednesday, Judge John Gauntt sentenced Kelker to six months in jail on each charge, to be served concurrently, according to the Bell County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday.
Kelker had been out of jail on bond but was taken into custody after being sentenced, according to court and jail records. He was being held without bond on Friday.
At around 4 a.m. on March 7, 2019, Heights police responded to an alarm that had sounded at a large store in the city. Inside, officers found glass cases had been broken into that had contained electronic items such as drones, cameras, GPS units, video game consoles and computers, according to an arrest affidavit.
Meanwhile, an officer on patrol said he saw a “suspicious silver vehicle on Indian Oaks Drive at approximately 4:10 a.m.” He ran the license plate and determined Kelker to be the owner of the vehicle.
Police later obtained a search warrant for Kelker’s property, where they said they located some of the items that had been taken during the burglary, according to the affidavit.
Later that year, on Sept. 25, 2019, police responded to an alarm at another large store, this time in Killeen. Officers spoke with the store manager, who said that an alarm had been activated and he found that multiple items had been taken from the store.
“Officers located evidence that showed the door had tripped the alarm after being opened from the inside, making officers believe that person had concealed themselves in the building and waiting until after the store was closed to commit the burglary,” according to an arrest affidavit.
Surveillance video depicted a tall man, wearing all gray, emerging around 9:47 p.m. to steal an Apple computer.
Police later located that computer at a pawn shop in Schertz, Texas, on Oct. 4, 2019. The pawn shop owner’s records indicated that Kelker was the person who pawned the item.
