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Published Saturday, January 03, 2009 6:05 AM

Deputy: Charges unlikely in shooting

Milam County authorities said Friday that a 28-year-old Engleton resident who shot and killed a man who entered a home armed and uninvited probably would not be charged.

Deputy J. Beathard said Toby Broussard shot Eddie Sexton III, 34, just before 2 a.m. Sunday after Sexton entered the house where Sexton's former wife lived. Authorities said Sexton was carrying a bat.

Beathard, who is an investigator with the Milam County Sheriff's Office, said officials believe Broussard fired the handgun in self-defense.

Broussard is "a male friend of the victim's ex-wife," Beathard said.

Beathard said that Dana Jo Sexton and Eddie Sexton filed for divorce in May and had been separated for several months but that the status of their divorce was unclear.

Beathard said both Broussard and Dana Jo Sexton, who were the only ones at her home near Cameron on County Road 218, had cooperated fully with investigators.

Once final autopsy results are returned, Beathard said, the case will be presented to a grand jury.

"It will be up to them to decide if this will fall under a self-defense issue," Beathard said.

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Posted by: On: 1/3/2009

Comment Title:
sounds like a case for C.S.I. Chitterlingville

Posted by: On: 1/3/2009

Comment Title: Hillbilly Soaps
who was more stupid? Eddie brought a bat to a gun fight.

Posted by: On: 1/3/2009

Comment Title: Don't comment if you don't know what your talking about.....
It makes me so mad when people state ignorant comments when the do not know all the details. I know Eddie should not have been in the house but it is different if they knew Eddie was coming and never called the cops and decided to take it in their own hands. Also, who's to say he REALLY broke in or had the bat...he had a key that his wife just gave him last week to the new locks. She just changed the locks and claimed to everyone (especially the new boyfriend) that she was scared of Eddie, so why give him the NEW keys! There are so many things that are questionable about this case, so if you don't know what your talking about just shut up!

Posted by: On: 1/3/2009

Comment Title: Man 's got to do...
Why charge this guy. If you don't live there, don't try to enter. I guess the bat was a replacement for flowers..The beating he was there to give was a show of love? I divorced and got on with life..People look. You don't have to be with some one..And you surely can't force them to be with you. Let go when it get to the point that harm is the answer.. This guy did what he had to do. He had to take care of himself and his lady friend.