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Emily Hilley-Sierzchula

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Emily Hilley-Sierzchula | Herald correspondent

    17-year-old to serve 20 days of work release after arson at Ellison High School (opens the original)

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    A Killeen teenager will have to serve 20 days as part of Bell County’s work release program after he admitted to setting fires in two high school restrooms earlier this year. Torrick Tennell, 17, was indicted on April 29, by a Bell County grand jury on a second-degree felony charge of arson. Court records show that he pleaded guilty on Aug. 11. During a hearing on Monday in the 426th Judicial District Court, Judge Steve Duskie placed Tennell on five years of deferred adjudication probation. As

  2. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Emily Hilley-Sierzchula | Herald correspondent

    Killeen woman sentenced to 10 years of deferred probation after police said phone dispute led to shooting (opens the original)

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    A Killeen woman recently was sentenced to a 10-year term of deferred adjudication probation after she admitted to having a role in a shooting over a cellphone in 2023. Monica Eliana Villegas Herrera, 24, and Samuel Villegas Herrera Jr., 20, both were indicted by a Bell County grand jury on Jan. 29, 2025, on a second-degree felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Samuel Herrera’s name was not included on the public grand jury report at that time because he had not yet been arr

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Emily Hilley-Sierzchula | Herald correspondent

    Killeen man said he shot mom’s husband in self-defense after fight; gets 16 years (opens the original)

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    For 39 years, the life of Roland Bruce Lee III never transected the criminal justice system until last year when, after a fist-fight, he used his AK-style .556-caliber rifle to shoot a 58-year-old man once in the head, killing him instantly. After a sentencing hearing this week during which the victim was described by a witness as “very difficult to deal with,” Lee was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the homicide of Christopher Dixon that occurred on Oct. 25, 2025, in Killeen. On Jan. 14

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Emily Hilley-Sierzchula | Herald correspondent

    Jury to determine sentence of man who shot at KPD officers after finding him guilty (opens the original)

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    BELTON — With five separate cases involving four victims, three of whom were Killeen police officers, it took Judge Steve Duskie almost an hour to read aloud the court’s charge and jury instructions on Thursday morning at the end of a 3-day trial. It would take less than two hours for the jury to decide all of the cases. The defendant, Philip Nguyen, 28, of Killeen, was indicted by a Bell County grand jury on March 20, 2024, on three first-degree felony charges of aggravated assault against

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Emily Hilley-Sierzchula | Herald correspondent

    Jury hands down steep sentence for man who shot at KPD officers (opens the original)

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    BELTON — With five separate cases involving four victims, three of whom were Killeen police officers, it took Judge Steve Duskie almost an hour to read aloud the court’s charge and jury instructions on Thursday morning at the end of a 3-day trial. It would take less than two hours for the jury to decide all of the cases. The defendant, Philip Nguyen, 28, of Killeen, was indicted by a Bell County grand jury on March 20, 2024, on three first-degree felony charges of aggravated assault against

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