Killeen man facing death penalty wants new lawyer
Another delay in the quest for a trial for Marvin Guy, accused of killing a Killeen detective, may be imminent, as Guyâs family said he is looking to seek new legal representation.
Guy, 56, is accused of shooting a Killeen Police Department detective, who later died, during a no-knock raid on Guyâs residence on Circle M Drive in 2014. Guy has claimed self-defense, saying that he did not know it was police entering his residence.
KPD SWAT Detective Charles âChuckâ Dinwiddie and three other officers were shot on May 9, 2014, and Dinwiddie died in a hospital two days later.
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The Texas governor announced on Tuesday that the statewide mask mandate will be coming down next week, but masks could still be required in some places at the local level.
On Tuesday, Killeen city spokeswoman Hilary Shine said that the mask mandate made by Mayor Jose Segarra last year had been superseded by the governorâs order in July.
âThe Governorâs order removes the statewide mask requirement and capacity restrictions but allows for each business to determine what practices they wish to employ,â Shine said by email on Tuesday.
Segarra said that at this point it will be mainly on a voluntary basis, for businesses and individuals.
After years of discussion â and rejection â of developer impact fees, the Killeen City Council is set to renew that discussion.
At its Tuesday workshop, the council heard two presentations â one in public hearing and the other in the discussion items section â from City Public Works Director Danielle Singh. Both presentations dealt with impact fees, about which the city is hosting a public hearing next Tuesday, March 9.
Charged to developers and builders, water and wastewater impact fees help municipalities recoup costs of building roads and infrastructure up to new developments and structures.
Singh again touched on how the Capital Improvement Plan and Land Use Assumption factor into impact fees. Related to this, Singh presented a formula by which such fees are calculated, whereby overall recoverable Capital Improvement Costs are divided by the number of new service units.
The city could be facing at least $40 million in additional road repairs necessitated by the recent harsh winter weather, Killeen City Manager Kent Cagle said at Tuesday’s Killeen City