More Charges against Fatal Shooting Suspect
Posted/updated on: August 15, 2013 at 3:55 pmDeSOTO (AP/STAFF) – Police in DeSoto say they’ve filed additional charges against a former Tyler football star accused of fatally shooting four people and wounding four others. DeSoto police Cpl. Melissa Franks said Wednesday that Erbie Bowser, 44, is charged with two counts of injury to a child. Authorities say he shot an 11-year-old and 13-year-old in the same DeSoto home where he killed his estranged wife and her daughter. He’s already been charged with two counts of capital murder in the August 7 attack. Police say the children will recover.
The DeSoto killings were preceded the same night by another shooting just miles away at a Dallas home. Authorities say Bowser killed his girlfriend and her daughter, and wounded a 17-year-old and 14-year-old. He’s facing multiple charges in that attack. 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.