[News Script: Murder suspect] Page: 3 of 6
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MURDER SUSPECTS 2 2 2
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CAR ROOD
occupied
Baltierra said they pulled up alongside the oar, KIZIUC
by the Ponder brothers. He said the IRU person sitting
next to the driver leaned over and fired a rifle at the
oar driven by Davis, Baltierra said Davis slumped over
against the wheel, the car spun out of control, and
crashed against a light pole. Baltierra sustained only
minor injuries, but Davis was pronounced dead on arrival
at St Josephis Hospital. At first, attendants' believed
Davis had died of a broken neck, suffered in the crash,
his
but later, a bullet was found in X1K head. The bullet
entered through the shoulder, and ranged upwards. Peace
Justice Boyd ruled homicide. Police talked with a wait..
tress at the drive.in where the fight reportedly ocoured,
one of the
and the waitress told them where the Ponder brothers
lived~ The landlady at that addre ss said the brothers had
been by earlier, and said they were driving to East Texas.
John Paul Ponder lives at 8.mO9 Granger, his brother lives
at 21,12 Washington. The suspects were traced to the home
of a brother South of Yantis, in Wood County, where they
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Murder suspect], script, March 10, 1962; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc977858/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.