A Bell County judge decided against reducing the bond this week of a Killeen man who has been awaiting trial on a murder charge since being booked into the Bell County Jail more than two and a half years ago.
Parish Dionte Young, 28, was indicted on March 28, 2018, in connection to the shooting death of Larry James Sterling Jr., 35, on Feb. 10, 2018, in Harker Heights.
Young has been in custody since Feb. 20, 2018.
At a prior bond hearing on Sept. 28, 2018, Judge Paul LePak reduced Youngâs $1 million bond to $100,000, but after hearing arguments and brief testimony from Young during a remote hearing on Thursday, the judge did not want to further reduce the amount.