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The 18-year-old accused of fatally shooting actor Eddie Hassell in Grand Prairie last year has been indicted on a capital murder charge.
A Tarrant County grand jury handed up the indictment of D’Jon Ramon Tony Alfred Antone on Wednesday. He remains in custody at the county jail, with bail set at $5 million.
Hassell, 30, was found wounded early Nov. 1 in the 3000 block of West Bardin Road. He was taken to Medical City Arlington Hospital, where he died from a gunshot to his abdomen.
According to police, Hassell — a Corsicana native known for his roles in the film The Kids Are All Right and the TV series Surface — had left an apartment to go to a car that belonged to the woman he was staying with.
The car was later reported stolen, and surveillance footage from the apartment complex showed it speeding off after the shooting.
A witness told a detective that Antone shot Hassell and stole the car, an arrest-warrant affidavit said.
Antone was taken into custody several days after the shooting, which happened on his 18th birthday. Days before, he had pleaded guilty to carrying a gun in a weapons-free zone — on or near the premises of Bowie High School — and was given two years of deferred-adjudication probation, court records show.