Arrested Fort Worth murder suspect was wounded by police in 2014 confrontation
A third suspect in a January slaying in south Fort Worth was in custody Wednesday and faces a murder charge in the case, according to police and jail reports.
The 24-year-old Fort Worth man is familiar to police because officers shot him in 2014 when he charged them with a tire iron during a burglary, police have said.
Jaden Williams was booked into jail last week after an investigation led detectives to the Fort Worth man. Williams is accused of being involved in the fatal shooting of Anjonae J. Eubanks, 33, on Jan. 9.
Two teens also have been arrested in the case. One of the teens, Adrian Robinson, 19, is accused of involvement in the killings of Eubanks and another woman within a week in January.
Officers were dispatched to the Jan. 9 shooting call in the 6400 block of Canyon Circle Drive, according to a police call log.
Officers found Eubanks, who had suffered a gunshot wound, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
In February, two suspects were arrested on suspicion of murder in Eubanks’ killing.
Robinson and Leontye Willis, 17, were booked into jail, according to a police log. Eubanks’ death was caused by a high-velocity gunshot wound to her head.
Detectives also been investigating the shooting death of Cheyenne Moore on Jan. 12 in Fort Worth.
Robinson also was accused in that killing. Fort Worth police also arrested a second suspect in Moore’s killing, Braylin Brown, in March on suspicion of capital murder for retaliation.
Brown, 19, is a Lake Como Crips gang member, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office wrote in a motion it filed seeking an increase of his bond in another case.
The police department declined to release details of the results of its investigations of the killings.
Moore, 17, of Arlington, was shot in the 5700 block of East Rosedale Street. Her brother drove her to John Peter Smith Hospital, where she died.
Moore was a student at Arlington Martin High School.
In 2014, Williams, the third suspect accused in Eubanks’ killing, was holding a raised tire iron in his hand when he charged at a police officer and was shot by a second officer, police reported.
After he was wounded, Williams, then 18, threw the tire iron at Officer C. Vistine, hitting him in the head, Cpl. Tracey Knight, a police spokeswoman, said in a 2014 news release.
Both officers then “engaged the suspect” and arrested him, the news release said.
Williams was treated and later released from a local hospital. The officer was treated at the scene.
Williams was sentenced to five years in prison for the assault on the officer, a robbery case, and a drug possession charge, according to Tarrant County criminal court records. He was later released from prison.
Williams was in the Tarrant County Jail on Wednesday in lieu of $250,000 bond.
This story was originally published April 1, 2020 at 7:47 AM with the headline "Arrested Fort Worth murder suspect was wounded by police in 2014 confrontation."
