Man faces charge in brother’s killing
A Leon Valley man arrested in November on allegations that he killed his brother over a woman has been indicted on a murder charge.
Leon Valley police arrested Darren Doze, 36, and charged him with murder after being called May 2 to the Vista Del Rey apartments on Evers Road and finding his brother, Ronald Doze, 39, bleeding on the kitchen floor from a gunshot wound to his upper leg. EMS took him to University Hospital where he later died.
The case was among the 178 felony indictments handed down this week by two Bexar County grand juries, the District Attorney’s Office said Friday in a statement.
An affidavit supporting his arrest stated that before he was taken to the hospital, Ronald Doze told police that his brother shot him.
The document said a woman who lived in the apartment told police that Darren Doze spoke after the shooting about his brother making unwanted passes earlier in the evening at another woman Darren Doze had brought to the apartment.
Ronald Doze had been staying in the witness’s apartment for three months after he was evicted from his previous residence, the affidavit stated. The night of the shooting, the witness said Darren Doze and the other woman, whom authorities did not identify, came to the apartment to drink beer with his brother.
The witness said she went to bed around 3 a.m. and was awakened around 7 a.m. to Ronald Doze shouting at her to call police. Then, she heard a gunshot and ran out of her bedroom.
She told police she saw Darren Doze running out of the apartment with what appeared to be a rifle, according to the affidavit. The witness said she followed him to ask what he had done, and said he apologized for the shooting and left with the unidentified woman.
If convicted of murder, Doze faces up to life in prison. His case is being prosecuted by the Family Violence Division in the 187th District Court.
Christopher Lee Powell, of Killeen, also was indicted on a murder charge this week.
The indictment alleges that Powell “intentionally and knowingly” caused the death of Ibrahim Suarez, who was fatally shot April 9.
Powell’s case is being prosecuted by the Criminal Trial Division in the 399th District Court.
If convicted, Powell, 34, faces up to life in prison.