High school basketball playoffs continue for the Rudder girls and start for the Consol, Bryan and Rudder boys tonight. The Rudder girls will meet Jacksonville in the regional quarterfinals in Buffalo at 7 pm. Last night Navasota girls came back from 16 down in the 4th quarter to beat Giddings 53-52 in Huntsville
Bi-district games for the Rudder boys as they meet Lancaster at 8 pm in West; Bryan boys take on Mesquite at 7 in Fairfield; and the Consol boys meet DeSoto at 7 at McLennan CC in Waco.
The Brazos County district attorney’s office announces adding a murder charge in the shooting death of a Bryan woman on Monday night (August 5). Jail records also show 22 year old Dequajna Johnson remains charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. As previously reported, 22 year old Keianna Hines of Bryan was killed during what bystanders told Bryan police was an ongoing dispute with Johnson about the same ex-boyfriend. According to a new BPD arrest report, Johnson was in a stopped car when she shot 22 year old Keianna Hines of Bryan. Johnson told detectives she pulled a gun out of her purse when Hines opened the car door because “she only wanted to make Keianna back up so she could shut the car door.” The arrest report said Johnson “extended her right arm out as if she was shooting a firearm but turned her head away from where she would be pointing the firearm.” Johnson said “she thought the gun was on safety” but “the gun went off” and that she “was not aware that she even hit her”. Johnson remains jailed in lieu of a $250,000 dollar bond on the murder charge, a $200,000 dollar bond for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and a $100,000 dollar bond on an unrelated aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge where she is awaiting trial for threatening a man with a gun at a College Station apartment pool in June 2023. Original story, August 7, 2024: An ongoing dispute between two Bryan women about the same ex-boyfriend resulted in gunfire Monday night (August 5) that killed one of the women and put the other woman in jail. That’s according to the Bryan police arrest report of 22 year old Dequajna Johnson on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the death of 22 year old Keianna Hines. The arrest report also said there was police involvement in what was only described as a previous incident between the two women on June 24th. Johnson, who is jailed in lieu of a $200,000 dollar bond, is awaiting trial on a charge of threatening a man with a gun at a College Station apartment pool in June of 2023. Bond in the 2023 case has been increased to $100,000 dollars following a request by the district attorney’s office. Johnson is also accused of violating probation related to a misdemeanor theft that took place in December 2019.
The Texas A&M system board of regents is told that “teaching laboratory space likely represents the most significant bottleneck for teaching undergraduate life science majors.” That was part of the reason the regents at their August 1st meeting, approved a $12 million dollar renovation of the fourth floor of A&M’s Heldenfels building to start in September 2024 instead of 2025. A&M associate vice president for facilities Les Williams says the labs, which will be used by the biology, biomedical sciences, and nutrition programs, will be completed in the summer of 2026. Click HERE to read and download details of the Heldenfels fourth floor renovation project that was approved at the August 1, 2024 board of regents meeting. Click below to hear comments from Les Williams during the July 31, 2024 board of regents building committee meeting.
The Bryan city council, acting as the city’s commerce and development board, purchases a house next to the Phillips Events Center. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez told listeners on WTAW’s The Infomaniacs that it was not a hostile takeover. The home, at 2001 Quail Hollow, is next to tennis courts and the main entrance to the events center and municipal golf course. Gutierrez says no specific purpose has been identified for the property. The purchase price was $370,000 dollars. Click HERE to read and download background information from the July 9, 2024 Bryan Commerce & Development (BCD) board meeting. Click HERE to read and download the resolution that was approved at the July 9, 2024 BCD meeting. Click below to hear comments from Bobby Gutierrez on WTAW’s The Infomaniacs July 31, 2024:
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