NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) -
The
brother of a man killed in a Nacogdoches drug deal gone bad in March 2009 was
arrested on four delivery of marijuana charges Tuesday night.
Duane
Tyler Frazar, 23, of Nacogdoches, was arrested by a Department of Public Safety
investigator and charged with four counts of delivery of marijuana between a
quarter ounce and five pounds. The charge is a state-jail felony. Collectively,
his bond has been set at $20,000.
The DPS
investigator worked with a Cooperating Individual that used cash to purchase
approximately 90 grams of marijuana from Frazar at several different locations
in and around Nacogdoches, according to the arrest affidavits.
Detective
Greg Sowell, the public information officer for the Nacogdoches Police
Department, confirmed that Duane Frazar was in the apartment at Cambridge Court
on the day that his brother, Charles Justin Frazar, 22, was killed during an
attempted robbery that police said was a drug deal gone wrong.
On that
day in March 2009, three suspects went to the apartment, which was Charles
Frazar's residence, to purchase marijuana. During the transaction, one of the
men allegedly pulled a handgun and attempted to rob Charles Frazar, a film
student at Stephen F. Austin State University, of the marijuana, according to
police reports.
At that
point, Charles Frazar grabbed a knife and charged the three suspects, cutting
two of them. The last man then fired his gun at Charles Frazar, hitting him
three times. He then wrestled the gun away and shot one of the other two
suspects.
One of the
suspects fled and went to a hospital. Charles Frazar then went to the parking
lot and was rushed to a hospital, where he died as a result of his wounds.
All three
suspects, Okeiron Bowser, Marlon Randle, and Marsh Odom, were arrested and
charged with capital murder after they were treated for their injuries.
In the
wake of Charles Frazar's death, grieving fellow SFA students posted pictures of
him on Facebook. Among the pictures was one posted by Duane Frazar. He wrote, "It
should have been me." A later Facebook posting from Duane Frazar said, "I just
always thought it would be me first."
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Duane Tyler Frazar (Source: Nacogdoches County Jail)
