KAUFMAN, Texas — A Kaufman County Grand Jury returned a murder indictment for a 55-year-man in connection with a fatal shooting at Walmart in Kaufman last month.
KAUFMAN, Texas — A Kaufman County Grand Jury returned a murder indictment for a 55-year-man in connection with a fatal shooting at Walmart in Kaufman last month.
55-year-old Donald Ray Coleman was indicted with one count of murder.
Coleman allegedly shot 59-year-old John D. Morgan multiple times before turning the gun on himself in an attempted murder-suicide. Coleman shot himself once in the head and remains hospitalized at the time of this indictment, according to Kaufman Police Department Captain Ed Black.
The shooting took place at approximately 9:41 a.m. on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, in the garden section of the Walmart store in the 300 block of Kings Fort Crossing in Kaufman.
"Kaufman Investigators are looking into reports of an ongoing feud of some sort between the gunman and the victim," stated Black.
Coleman was arrested in January 2016 after a domestic incident with his estranged wife in which he unlawfully restrained her, struck her repeatedly in the face with his hands and a handgun, and threatened to kill her and a friend she had been out with the night before, according to a Gun Barrel City Police Department press release.
Coleman discharged a firearm, a Taurus 9mm handgun, into the floor in that incident. Coleman was released the next day on bonds totaling $22,500. Police believe the shooting was the culmination of the January incident.
