GALVESTON COUNTY \u2014 One woman is dead and another is charged with murdering her today behind bars in the Galveston County Jail, according to the Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
39-year-old Crystal Walker is charged with the murder of Bessie Burgan, 58. A judge set Walker’s bond at $500,000. She was in custody for a probation violation linked to a drug charge.<\/p>\n
Investigators say Walker assaulted Burgan today and she taken to UTMB in Galveston where she died.<\/p>\n
The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office is actively investigating the homicide. The Texas Rangers are conducting an independent investigation into the in-custody death. The Galveston County District Attorney’s Office responded to the scene and is assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n
Following a review of surveillance video, witness interviews, and consultation with the Galveston County District Attorney’s Office, Walker has been charged with murder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GALVESTON COUNTY \u2014 One woman is dead and another is charged with murdering her today behind bars in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-272294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}