Overview
- Deputies and officers from Splendora police and the Texas Department of Public Safety responded to a report of an assault with a firearm in the 15800 block of East Relza Drive and found a man with multiple gunshot wounds.
- The victim was pronounced dead at the scene and identified by authorities as 41-year-old William Warhol III.
- Investigators arrested 42-year-old Eric Ross Fergeson and charged him with murder; he is being held in the Montgomery County Jail.
- Officials say the two men knew each other, had mutual friends, and that an earlier, unrelated vehicle accident escalated tensions that led to a verbal altercation and then violence.
- Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office major crimes detectives and crime-scene teams are continuing interviews and evidence work and could bring additional charges as the probe develops.