DeShawn Longmire, a 23-year-old Uber driver, was charged Friday in the June 24 slaying of Ronald Mouton Sr., a prominent pastor at East Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Houston. According to People News, the killing was the result of a road rage incident. Ronald Mouton Sr. and DeShawn Longmire were allegedly arguing in their cars while stopped at a traffic light. Longmire was accused by authorities of shooting Mouton before driving away. The 58-year-old priest was pronounced dead at the scene. On Friday, Houston officers arrested DeShawn Longmire and formally charged him with murder. He is now in police custody at the Harris County Jail.
Ronald Mouton Sr. was killed
DeShawn Longmire was driving for Uber in a black Honda when he got into an argument with Ronald Mouton Sr. at a stoplight, according to an arrest report. In contrast, Mouton drove a white BMW. No person had a passenger in the car. According to the police report, neither knew each other before the encounter. Authorities believe that after an argument, DeShawn Longmire pulled out a revolver and shot Ronald Mouton Sr., who then wrecked his car.
“(Longmire) reached out the driver’s side window, holding a revolver.”
Longmore is then accused of leaving the scene in his car. The suspect remained unidentified after the shooting as of Friday. During the manhunt, Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and Houston Crime Stoppers sent an official statement to the public stating that a reward would be offered to the person who identifies the gunman in Mouton’s murder. Longmire was in the neighborhood during the shooting, making him the prime suspect in the killing, according to the investigation.
Lee, who knew Mouton, characterized him in her statement as a faithful pastor who had been with East Bethel Missionary Baptist Church for three decades.
She stated:
“(Ronald Mouton Sr.) was just an innocent guy walking down the road near his church, where he always worked.”
Mouton’s family expressed grief over his loss in reaction to the tragedy.
In the official statement they wrote:
“We are still grieving this unnecessary tragedy. We want the person who killed him to understand the gravity of his act. He killed the husband and the father.”
UPDATE: Suspect Deshawn Longmire, 23, has been arrested and charged with Ronald Mouton’s murder.
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It went on:
“Our faith and optimism is in the professional work of the police. We also hope that the entire task of the criminal justice system is fully accomplished and that justice is served.”
According to People News, DeShawn Longmire has yet to enter a plea. He is now in the Harris County Jail on $500,000 bail.
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