BEAUMONT, Texas — A 20-year-old Beaumont woman wanted in connection with a drive-by shooting that wounded two people on Sunday afternoon has been arrested.
Marhargane Ilesha Broussard, 20, of Beaumont, was booked into the Jefferson County Correctional Facility after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night. Broussard turned herself in and was arrested by Jefferson County deputies, according to Jefferson County Captain Crystal Holmes.
She is being held on a misdemeanor deadly conduct charge and two first degree felony charges of aggravated assault of a family member with a weapon according to jail records.
Her bond was set at $200,000 for each charge for a total bond of $600,000 according to jail staff.
Beaumont Police officers were sent to a reported shooting in the 2500 block of Pine St on Sunday, September 3, 2023, at about 2 p.m.
When they arrived officers found two people with gunshot wounds. Both were taken by ambulance to a Southeast Texas hospital with non-life threatening injuries according to a news release from police,
Police say that they learned that Broussard had committed the drive-by shooting and was targeting members of her own family according to the news release.
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