HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police have made an arrest eight months after a Navy recruit was gunned down in Midtown while confronting a suspected car burglar.
Tristin Williams, 38, was arrested at his Greenspoint home Monday and charged with murder. Records show he is a habitual car burglar and was out on bond at the time of the murder.
Julian Comeaux, 21, was shot and killed at Bagby and Hadley on Feb. 16, after a night out with friends.
Police say a witness told them Comeaux had jumped on Williams’ back after confronting him about breaking into a friend’s car.
Officers say Williams opened fire, striking one man in the arm and hitting Comeaux multiple times.
Police released an artist’s sketch of Williams earlier this year, but say it was ultimately DNA left on a Croc they retrieved from the crime scene that identified him.
Records show Williams has been arrested four times in Harris County for breaking into vehicles, but was only convicted of doing so twice. The other cases were tossed as part of plea agreements.
In his second burglary conviction, he was given four days in jail.
“That’s not that unusual when you’re talking about misdemeanors, and as people go on, you’ll see rapsheets that get longer than that,” said Joe Vinas, a criminal defense attorney Eyewitness News asked to review Williams’ record.
At the time of the murder, Williams was out on bond for a criminal mischief charge he’d picked up in November, according to online court documents.
Police say he damaged a car door handle with a screwdriver.
A hearing officer gave him a $100 unsecured bond, meaning he didn’t have to pay it in order to get out of jail.
The charge he was facing at the time was his 24th in Harris County.
“You look at that and that’s generally not somebody that you’re giving a general order bond to just with that number of priors,” said Vinas.
Magistrate Teresa Cannady set Williams’ bond at $200,000 in the murder case. He appears before a judge on Wednesday morning, at which time his bond could be adjusted.
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