UPDATE: September 17 8:25 a.m.
A fourth suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of Jason Baum, according to the Wichita Falls Police Department.
Antwan Williams, 17, was arrested by the WFPD on September 16, 2020.
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UPDATE: July 3 11:05 a.m.
According to Sammy Worthy’s arrest affidavit, Martez Vrana was listed as a person of interest in the investigation.
According to the Wichita County Jail log, Vrana was arrested on July 2 on a charge of organized criminal activity/ murder.
His arrest affidavit has not been made available to the public at the time of publishing.
According to Sammy Worthy’s arrest affidavit, WFPD listed that there is another unnamed suspect.
UPDATE: July 3 10:30 a.m.
According to arrest affidavits, Sammy Worthy and Dimonique McKinney have been charged with murder for the homicide of Jason Baum, 23, according to WFPD. Worthy and McKinney were arrested June 25 for aggravated robbery in a drug deal turned violent. Baum was found dead from a gunshot wound on June 11. His body was found in the south alley of the 4600 block of Meadow Lake around 10:30 p.m. A witness on the scene said they heard four gunshots, and police officers said there were at least two shell casings at the crime scene.
WICHITA COUNTY (KFDX/KJTL) — Two men arrested in a drug deal turned robbery are now also charged with murder.
Dimonique McKinney, 19, and Sammy Worthy were arrested on June 24 and June 25 for aggravated robbery.
Worthy is charged with engaging in organized criminal activity—murder out of the Wichita County Sheriff’s Office as well as aggravated robbery through the Wichita Falls Police Department.
McKinney is charged with engaging in organized criminal activity—capital murder out of the Wichita County Sheriff’s Office and aggravated robbery and discharging firearm within certain municipalities through the Wichita Falls Police Department.
In a previous story, police officers said officials were contacted by the victim’s mother. She said her son came home bloody, with a cut above his eye and she asked what happened.
The victim said he went to Forest Glen Apartments to buy marijuana, and a person took him to another building where Worthy and another man supposedly had the marijuana.
The victim said both those men got in his car and demanded his money.
When he refused, the victim said Worthy pulled out a gun and hit him in the face with it and took about $1,200 from him.
The victim’s mother said she messaged Worthy and drove to the apartments to confront him but he wouldn’t answer his phone.
Both Worthy and McKinney initially had bonds said at $750,000 each, but their bonds now are unknown at this time.
