More Charges Filed in Attacks that Killed Four
Posted/updated on: August 11, 2013 at 4:54 pm
DeSOTO (AP/Staff) – More charges have been filed against the former Tyler man who police say fatally shot four people and injured four others in separate Dallas-area attacks. Erbie Lee Bowser was charged by Dallas police Friday with capital murder in the deaths of his girlfriend, Toya Smith, and her daughter, 17-year-old Tasmia Allen. He was also charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for wounding Smith’s 14-year-old son and a 17-year-old family friend.
Dallas police say in the arrest affidavit that the family friend identified Bowser as the shooter. Police say after Wednesday’s shooting in Dallas, the 44-year-old Bowser went to a DeSoto home and killed his estranged wife and her daughter. He also wounded two boys. Bowser is already charged with two counts of capital murder in the DeSoto killings. According to KETK, Bowser is a 1987 graduate of Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler, where he was an all-state football selection in 1986.
