Grand Jury Indicts Robert E. Lee Graduate

DALLAS (AP) � A Dallas grand jury has indicted a former teacher and Dallas Mavericks dancer and 1987 graduate of Tyler�s Robert E Lee High School for capital murder. The indictment accuses Erbie Bowser, 44, of killing his estranged wife, Zina Bowser, and her daughter, Neima Williams. Police have accused Bowser of attacking homes in Dallas and the suburb of DeSoto, killing four people. Bowser is a former performer in the Mavericks dance troupe known as the �ManiAACs.� He is currently being held in the Dallas County jail on $7 million bond.

Bowser is a 1987 graduate of Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler, where he was an all-state football selection in 1986. DeSoto police say that Bowser detonated a grenade inside his estranged wife’s house and was arrested after running out of ammunition. The arrest warrant says police found a grenade pin and fragments inside the DeSoto home of Zina Bowser, 47. Police say Bowser shot and killed Zina Bowser and her 28-year-old daughter on August 7. The attack in DeSoto happened about 15 minutes after one in Dallas in which police say Bowser killed his girlfriend, Toya Smith, and her teenage daughter.