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From today's Austin Statesman.com site:

"A 64-year-old Kingsland man, already charged with a state jail felony for shooting an alleged burglar of his neighbor’s home in July, was indicted Tuesday on one count of felony deadly conduct, officials said.

Tommy Oakes was originally charged in August with felony aggravated assault. The shooting victim, Casey Rowe, died in September at a Lubbock rehabilitation facility.

Oakes is accused of firing at a vehicle on July 30 after confronting several men he said were burglarizing his neighbor’s home. Rowe, who was in the vehicle, was later found at an emergency medical services station in Kingsland with a gunshot wound to the back of his neck, officials said.

Oakes’ attorney, Jim Wheat, has said that his client fired after he saw at least one of the men reach into the vehicle for what he thought was a weapon.

After Rowe died, a grand jury was presented with the option of charging Oakes with murder. Instead, the grand jury in January indicted Oakes on a charge of criminally negligent homicide, a state jail felony punishable with up to two years in jail, Wheat said.

The latest indictment relates to the number of shots fired that day, Llano County District Attorney Sam Oatman said. The original indictment focused specifically on the death of Rowe.

A second grand jury inidicted Oakes on the deadly conduct charges, punishable with up to 10 years in prison, Wheat said.

Oakes turned himself in to the Llano County sheriff’s office this morning and was released on his own recognizance, Wheat said."