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Grand Jury Indicts Houston Resident on Felony Murder Charge in Afghan Refugee’s Death

The indictment follows a three-month delay in seeking charges, with a summons for an August 5 court appearance under proposed bond conditions including GPS monitoring.

Abdul Rahman Waziri.
Abdul Rahman Waziri part of an elite Afghan military unit trained to detect hidden explosives and assigned to protect U.S. Green Berets
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Overview

  • A Harris County grand jury returned a felony murder indictment against 31-year-old Katia Trevon Bougere for the April 27 shooting of Abdul Rahman Waziri outside their apartment complex.
  • Prosecutors opted for a summons rather than an arrest warrant, requiring Bougere to appear at 9 a.m. on August 5 and warning that failure to show will trigger his arrest.
  • The district attorney’s office plans to seek a $100,000 bond along with home confinement, GPS monitoring and a prohibition on firearm possession.
  • Waziri’s family and former U.S. special-forces colleagues criticized the three-month delay and the decision to release Bougere after his on-scene admission of self-defense.
  • Waziri was an Afghan refugee who served five years protecting U.S. Green Berets, resettled in Houston in 2021 and was unarmed when he was fatally shot during a parking dispute.