NEWS
Jail inmate dies from apparent suicide
A 28-year-old Bowie man was found dead in his cell at the Montague County Jail Tuesday afternoon, and the apparent suicide is under investigation by the Texas Rangers.
Chief Deputy J.T. Mitchell said at 4:09 p.m. July 29, the jail staff while doing the normal rounds found James Weldon McGowan deceased in his cell.
“The area was secured by the staff and the district attorney investigator, while the Texas Rangers were notified to conduct an investigation into the death, which is believed to be a suicide,” said Mitchell.
Ranger Marshall Thomas said McGowan’s body was sent to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy. He would not elaborate on a possible cause of death, but restated “we feel it was a suicide.”
McGowan was booked into the county jail on July 22 on charges of possession of a firearm by a felon and theft of a firearm.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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