Xavier Andre Pipkin-Jarrell was arrested on Thursday, Jan. 8 in Spring Branch, Texas in connection with a homicide warrant out of Harris County. (Comal County)
SPRING BRANCH, Texas – A 19-year-old was arrested on Jan. 8 at his Comal County home in connection with a warrant for a murder that took place in Harris County.
Xavier Andre Pipkin-Jarrell is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of 26-year-old Dennis Maldonado Tejeda.
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Deputies were originally dispatched about 4:15 p.m. Dec. 31 to a call for service in northwest Houston, according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. When they arrived, they found Maldonado Tejeda dead inside a vehicle with apparent gunshot wounds.
The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested Xavier Andre Pipkin-Jarrell from a residence in Spring Branch, according to the U.S. Marshals Office.
The Spring Branch home is Pipkin-Jarrell’s only known address, according to public records.
Pipkin-Jarrell was booked into the Comal County Jail and is awaiting transfer to Houston.
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