SWEENY, Texas - In Sweeny, back in November 2024, Michaela Tyler was shot and killed at the Windmill Run Apartments. Her then-husband, Michael Logan Tyler, has been charged with murder, but it took nearly nine months.

However, nearly five months after Michaela Tyler was shot and killed, Robert Lee Phillips III was killed at the same apartment complex and there are still no charges in his case, but the chief of the Sweeny Police Department says they are close to handing down charges.

Michalea Tyler's death

The backstory:

Chief Brad Caudle says the day Michaela was shot, the call came in as a suicide call, but upon the arrival of his officers and later his investigators, he says he and his team had other thoughts. The Chief said there were inconsistencies from what they saw at the scen

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