BASTROP, Texas (AP) — A Central Texas sheriff’s deputy has been indicted on a murder charge in a woman’s shooting death in February.
A Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office statement says a county grand jury indicted Deputy Daniel Willis on Tuesday in the death of Yvette Smith. He’s been booked into the county jail in Bastrop with bond set at $100,000. Sheriff Terry Pickering also said Willis, a first-year deputy, has been fired from the force.
Jail records don’t list an attorney for Willis.
Incident records show that Smith died as deputies checked a domestic disturbance report. Deputies originally reported that Smith came to the door armed and was shot when she disregarded a debate to disarm. The sheriff’s office later came to question that report.
Two other deputies were demoted and suspended.
