A Travis County man has been charged with murder after investigators say he fatally shot his sister’s longtime boyfriend during a family gathering in East Travis County over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Travis County sheriff’s deputies responded to a home in the 15100 block of Retha Pass\u00a0in Austin’s Colony at 3:29 a.m. Saturday and found Lonnie Jerome White, 48, lying in the driveway with gunshot wounds to the head. White was pronounced dead at the scene less than 20 minutes later.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest affidavit, witnesses said a group had gathered at the home, where White lived, around 11 p.m. Friday to spend time with family and friends. Michael Scott Crawford, 47, attended with his two 17-year-old daughters.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told investigators that after several people had been drinking, an argument broke out among some of the women at the gathering before escalating into a confrontation between Crawford and White, who was Crawford’s sister’s longtime boyfriend.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Crawford struck a barbecue pit in the front yard with a baseball bat, while White picked up a pole or metal bar from the garage. After Crawford’s sister intervened, White went back inside the home as others tried to persuade Crawford to leave, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
Witnesses gave differing accounts of what happened next. One witness told deputies White raised a dumbbell over his head during the confrontation. Others said they did not see a dumbbell and instead saw White throw a punch at Crawford before Crawford pulled out a handgun and shot him.<\/p>\n
After the shooting, one witness told investigators Crawford walked up to White and said, “I told you not to mess with me,” according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
Crawford was arrested and charged with murder. He was later released on a $150,000 surety bond. As conditions of his release, he is prohibited from possessing firearms and must wear a GPS tracking device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Travis County man has been charged with murder after investigators say he fatally shot his sister’s longtime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-359455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359455","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=359455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}