SILSBEE, Texas — The Silsbee Police Department announced the arrests of two men in connection with a 2021 homicide and shooting that left one man dead and another injured.

Kyriq Juarez Wyatt, 23, and Bruce Wayne Newton Jr., 26, were taken into custody Saturday on Silsbee Police Department warrants and booked into the Hardin County Jail. Both men are charged with murder, aggravated robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and engaging in organized criminal activity, according to police.

The charges stem from a June 2, 2021 incident in which officers responded to two related crime scenes. Police said they found Jeremiah Kawane Grant dead from multiple gunshot wounds on Martin Luther King Drive between South 12th Street and Pine Street.

A second victim, Jacob Matthew Decuir, was lo

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