Overview

• Court officials scheduled jury selection for Monday with the trial to start immediately afterward in Kaufman County.
• McEuen is charged with capital murder in the 2023 shooting death of neighbor Aaron Martinez, alongside additional counts including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, arson, felony bail jumping, and failure to appear.
• Prosecutors and investigators say McEuen cut off his ankle monitor on May 5 and evaded capture for about 28 days before being found under his grandmother’s home in Van Zandt County.
• Authorities say surveillance and inter-agency intelligence led to his location after Gov. Greg Abbott added him to Texas’s 10 Most Wanted list and increased the reward to $30,000.
• Defense attorney Abigail Spain asserts the shooting was self-defense, while Martinez’s family describes prior threatening behavior and calls the killing a hate crime and the earlier bond decision a mistake.