TEXARKANA, Texas -- A court date is set later this month for a defendant in a September shooting death.
Rodney Jerel Lindley, 41, of Texarkana, Texas, is charged with murder in the death of 30-year-old Mercedes Young. Charges were filed Dec. 6, according to court records. Lindley's next court date has been reset for 9 a.m. Jan. 29 in Bowie County's 202nd District Court.
Lindley was arrested in November after police received information about where he was hiding in the city.
Lindley was wanted in the Sept. 13 murder of Young.
Police were dispatched to a house in the 3800 block of Alexander Avenue, just south of Liberty-Eylau Early Childhood Center, about 5 p.m. Sept. 13 after receiving reports of a disturbance and shots fired. At the scene, officers discovered Young with a gunshot wound.
Young died later that evening at the hospital.
Lindley, who allegedly fled the scene after the shooting, was quickly identified as the suspect. Detectives obtained a murder warrant for him that night.
Shortly after Young's death, her mother, Deann Gregory, told the Gazette her daughter was at the house babysitting a friend's children. Gregory said she does not know why Lindley also was at the house.
Young's children, who were with their mother, allege that Lindley and Young had argued before their mother was shot, Gregory said.
Young's death was the city's first homicide of the year.
Lindley remains in jail with bail set at $1 million. He is represented by the Bowie County Public Defender's Office.