Justice has been served for a man wanted in connection with a deadly shooting that ripped through the quiet of an Eastland Street convenience store lot last month. According to a news release from the City of Houston, Javunte Jerome Bradshaw, 30, has been nabbed by the cops and now faces murder charges for the death of 49-year-old Soldem Harris in what looks to be an altercation gone fatally wrong.
The Houston Police Department, detailed in the same release, tells a tale of a heated exchange that turned deadly. The suspect, now known as Bradshaw, allegedly locked horns with Harris before opening fire, a move that ended in multiple gunshot wounds for the victim and a subsequent declaration of demise at Ben Taub General Hospital. Bradshaw, who couldn't seem to escape the weight of his past dealings, has not only been charged with murder but with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, courtesy of the 487th State District Court.
The dragnet for Bradshaw stretched through weeks of investigative toil. It wasn't until the HPD got a break on Monday that the alleged triggerman's run from the law ended with a rather anticlimactic traffic stop. The HPD Northeast Crime Suppression Team swooped in on Bradshaw on Safebuy Street, where, without so much as a cowboy standoff, he was collared without incident. If the charges weren't heavy enough, the police found him with a gun, an illegal accessory for a man with a checkered past.
Surveillance footage was released the day after the tragedy.
