Woman found in closet with gunshot wound to the head was killed by her boyfriend who claimed it was an accident: Police

A Texas antheral is down bars aft shooting his girlfriend successful the caput and claiming she was partially to blasted for the unit that yet took her life, instrumentality enforcement successful the Lone Star State says.

Earlier this month, Brandon Chretien, 44, was charged with 1 number of aggravated battle with a limb causing encephalon injury/paralysis for the shooting that near 25-year-old Tammy Dawson warring for her life.

But past that combat ended.

Now, the suspect has been indicted for murder.

The underlying incidental occurred connected June 6, astatine the defendant's residence connected Heartfield Lane successful Beaumont – a ample metropolis successful East Texas.

Around 2:40 a.m., officers arrived successful effect to reports of idiosyncratic being shot, according to a probable origin affidavit obtained by section CBS, The CW, and Fox affiliate KFDM and the Beaumont Enterprise.

Dawson was recovered successful a closet with a gunshot coiled to her head, constabulary said. She was suffering from a traumatic encephalon wounded and rushed to St. Elizabeth Hospital, wherever she was initially listed successful captious condition. The unfortunate was past near successful a vegetative state, constabulary said.

She succumbed to her injuries the adjacent day.

Dawson's loved ones remembered her fondly.

"She was the embodiment of love," a person told Beaumont-based ABC affiliate KBMT and NBC affiliate KJAC, which collectively broadcast arsenic 12News Now. "That miss had truthful overmuch to give."

Investigators said Chretien and Dawson were successful a relationship.

The suspect himself called 911 connected the nighttime successful question and told the dispatcher that helium and his woman had struggled with a gun, according to the charging document. At immoderate constituent during the struggle, the suspect said the unfortunate had been changeable successful the head.

Responding officers said they recovered the handgun utilized successful the shooting connected a bedside table.

An probe determined the gunshot coiled to Dawson's caput was not self-inflicted, according to instrumentality enforcement. Rather, constabulary judge the grounds suggests that Chretien changeable the unfortunate himself.

While details astir the nonstop grounds tying the fellow to the transgression are scarce, instrumentality enforcement says the probe is ongoing.

At the residence, investigators stayed for hours, gathering grounds and taking photographs. Police besides called Beaumont Animal Care to instrumentality a tiny canine into custody, KFDM reported.

Since his arrest, Chretien has been detained successful the Jefferson County Correctional Facility connected $1 cardinal bond.

During his archetypal post-arrest hearing, Magistrate Richard Hughes acceptable the enslaved and conditions that see GPS monitoring, prohibiting the suspect from possessing firearms oregon ammunition, and nary interaction oregon connection with witnesses.