BEAUMONT, Texas — The man arrested for shooting another man found lying in a field in Beaumont's North End neighborhood has been indicted by a Jefferson County Grand Jury.
Murray Melvin Odom III, 45, turned himself into Beaumont Police Oct. 17 after Beaumont EMS found a man lying unconscious in the 1600 block of Leight Street at 3:25 p.m. Oct. 15, Beaumont Police said in a news release.
Officers who responded to the scene found Melvin Savoy, 56, with a gunshot wound to his lower body lying in a pool of blood in an open field on Leight Street, according to the probable cause affidavit.
A Jefferson County Grand Jury indicted Odom with first degree murder Wednesday, Dec. 2.
A witness told police they heard a verbal dispute between the two men and overheard Odom yelling at Savoy that he was missing tools. Then the witness said he heard a gunshot and saw Odom flee the scene in an older white pickup truck and Savoy laying on the ground in the field.
Another witness reported being inside a home on Lela Street when Odom ran inside and told him to call an ambulance because someone was hurt.