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Sheriff: Deputies shoot, kill man who shot wife Felicia Frazar The Seguin Gazette Guadalupe County sheriff ’s deputies shot and killed a man they say shot his wife during an argument early Tuesday morning, authorities said. Guadalupe County Sheriff
Arnold Zwicke said the shooting happened after 12:30 a.m. at a home in the 900 block of Stagecoach Road near FM 725. “Officers arrived to find a male and female arguing in the yard, at which time the male produced a handgun and shot the female,” he said. “Officers opened fire and
killed the male.” The woman was taken by helicopter to Brooke Army Medical Center for treatment and on Tuesday was listed in stable condition, Zwicke said. Deputies had not released the man’s name pending family notification.
Two deputies were involved in the shooting, Zwicke said. One is a nine-year veteran with the department. The other joined the sheriff ’s office three months ago, but is a five-year veteran officer, Zwicke said. Neither was injured, the sheriff said. The Texas Rangers are investi-
Deputies combed defendant’s property following shooting
gating the shooting. Both deputies are on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. Felicia Frazar is the managing editor of the Seguin Gazette. You can reach her at felicia.frazar@ seguingazette.com .
Man found dead at I-10 boat ramp; ruled homicide Felicia Frazar The Seguin Gazette
Dalondo Moultrie The Seguin Gazette Guadalupe County Sheriff ’s Office investigators took a metal detector and other tools and combed through a murder suspect’s property days after he allegedly shot and killed his next door neighbors. Brian Everett Day, 44, told detectives that his next-door neighbor fired a shot at him as he approached their shared fence line before Day returned fire killing Jenita and Thomas Holland. Sheriff ’s deputies looking into the killing only focused a search for physical evidence in one Brian area and not on both Day families’ properties, Sheriff ’s Investigator Sgt. Robert Murphy testified Monday as Day’s capital murder trial continued. “We parked on the Holland property and walked across the fence to the Day property,” he said on the witness stand, called by the defense. “To the best of my recollection, (the search) was all on the Day property.” Defense attorneys Cornelius Cox of San Antonio and Converse-based Wendellyn “Wende” Rush called their first witnesses Monday in the trial that started a week earlier. Several witnesses the defense called previously had testified for prosecutors Guadalupe County Attorney David Willborn and Special Assistant County Attorney Heather McMinn earlier in the trial. Murphy had not taken the stand before Monday. He provided his opinion on cross examination from McMinn, who asked him to describe Jenita’s body as he saw it at the scene.
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Josephine and Jack Johnson wrap their mom, Johanna Bain Johnson, in Christmas decor as she performs her autobiographical play “Songs and Other Important Lessons and Things.”
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Actress shares life story in self-written production Felicia Frazar The Seguin Gazette A local actress is putting her life story under the spotlight once again at a place she calls home, the Texas Theatre stage, with her family and friends by her side. Johanna Bain Johnson is reviving her original two-act play “Songs and 10 Important Lessons I Learned in Musical Theater School” and breathing life into the newest version “Songs and Other Important Lessons & Things,” a musical memoir. “It is the same one as last time. We trimmed some stuff in the first and second acts and added a third act,” she said.
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Seguin police are investigating the death of a man found at the boat ramp under Interstate 10 early Sunday morning as a homicide. Seguin Police Community Engagement Officer Sarah Chilutti Wallace said 51-yearold Santos Betulio Romero Hernandez of Seguin was found just before 6 a.m. at the boat ramp with multiple injuries to his head. “A preliminary investigation conducted by the Criminal Investigations Division revealed that Hernandez suffered blunt force trauma to his head,” Wallace said. “Evidence collected at the scene suggests that another party was involved in the incident.” POLICE - 7
Man receives life sentence for 2018 murder Dalondo Moultrie The Seguin Gazette
the idea. “I thought it was so neat and tidy with the way it ended,” she said. “But then I thought, well … I came up with the
After a judge sentence a Seguin man to life in prison in a Guadalupe County courtroom for murder, the victim’s mother warned her son’s killer to always look over his shoulder. While taking a shower, sitting down for lunch or going to bed while in prison, Bruce Kittelson should always feel Bruce like someone or some thing is watching him, said Cathy Fox, Kittelson mother of Kittelson’s victim Rocky Weaver. “I’m going to call on every demon that walks
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Felicia Frazar - The Seguin Gazette
Johanna Bain Johnson talks about her life as an actor and a mom while son Jack reads and daughter Josephine dances during her autobiographical performance in “Songs and Other Important Lessons & Things.” The idea to revamp the original stage production came following a suggestion from a fellow actor during a Christmas play. At first, Johnson was admittedly against
Guadalupe County investigating potential network breach Dalondo Moultrie The Seguin Gazette A data security incident has Guadalupe County officials on high alert and working together and with outside agencies to determine risk factors for county employees and residents. County information technology leaders learned about the incident early Saturday and quickly moved the county into defense mode, County Judge Kyle Kutscher said Monday. The county and a special team of forensic specialists were determining the extent of the incident and working to prevent fur-
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ther exposure, he said. “We are working with thirdparty forensic investigators and law enforcement agencies to find out possibly who did this and what we do moving forward, what files are safe, what potentially can be further issues and how we mitigate and remedy the issues,” Kutscher said. “We’ve been talking with these folks because they live in this world. They say a breach is when somebody gets information and obtains it. Ransomware is when people have all your stuff and want you to pay a ransom. We haven’t found anything of them having information or wanting anything
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as a group. We’re trying to go through the files and information and find that out.” On Saturday, the county became aware of a network disruption impacting operations, Guadalupe County Emergency Management Coordinator Patrick Pinder said in a new release on Monday. Experts were investigating what happened and determining how bad it was, he said. Because privacy and security are important, once the issue was discovered, county officials immediately began investigating.
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