A Galveston County Jail inmate is accused of killing another\u00a0person in custody on Wednesday, according to the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Crystal Walker, 39, was charged with murder in the death of 58-year-old Bessie\u00a0Burgan, who\u00a0was assaulted and later pronounced dead after being transported to the University of Texas Medical Branch. Walker was in jail for allegedly violating her probation on a drug charge \u2014possession of a controlled substance in Penalty Group 1 >=1g<4g, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n
Walker’s bond was set at $500,000, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Rangers were conducting separate investigations, and the Galveston County District Attorney’s Office also responded to help investigate, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n
County court records did not appear to show the murder charge early Thursday morning. A defense attorney representing Walker in the drug possession case did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Burgan was also in jail on a drug possession charge after a court revoked her probation earlier this year, court documents show. She had failed to pay necessary fees, perform enough community service and attend required appointments.<\/p>\n
Her defense attorney’s firm did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Galveston County Jail inmate is accused of killing another\u00a0person in custody on Wednesday, according to the Galveston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-616937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}