Friday, January 18, 2008

Cedar Hill Police appear to have solved murder from last November

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Brandon Reshard Ford, 19, was booked into the Dallas County Jail Jan. 14, charged with capital murder for the Oct. 30 murder of Samuel Bowie; he had been arrested late in the day Jan. 11. Police already wanted to talk to him about the theft of Bowie's car, taken from his house when he was killed.

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“Ford was a person of interest; he was identified driving Bowie's car Nov. 19,” Cedar Hill Police Lt. Steve Lafferty said.

“We issued a unauthorized use of a motor vehicle warrant, but he went underground and we were unable to find him,” Lafferty said.

Lafferty said the Dallas Police Department then got a tip about Ford Jan. 11 and found he was driving another stolen car. They arrested him, and the tipster then said he was also wanted in relation to a homicide.

Lafferty said he was put in Dallas PD's homicide area, and when they found the connection, called Cedar Hill.

He said Ford was interviewed both at the Dallas jail and later at the DeSoto jail. Ford cooperated with investigators, Lafferty said.

During the interviews, Lafferty said Ford named a second, accomplice, suspect in the case. Cedar Hill Police are not disclosing his name at this time while they continue the investigation.

As for motive, Lafferty said it appeared to start as a burglary, then became a robbery that eventually turned fatal.

Bowie, a photographer and the owner of a Dallas-area modeling agency, was found murdered in his Cedar Hill home Oct. 30. Bowie, 41, ran Bowie Model Management from the second floor of his home on Watercourse Way.

When police arrived at Bowie's residence, they found him with a blunt force head wound.

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