Overview
- U.S. prosecutors filed carjacking and firearms charges against Darius Dewayne Hall, 18, in connection with the March 6 robbery and theft that followed the fatal shooting of Marietta Allison, 61.
- Hall remains held without bond on a state capital murder charge, with separate state counts for evading arrest and tampering set at $150,000 each.
- Prosecutors and court records say Allison, visiting from Austin to support a friend’s chemotherapy at MD Anderson, was shot in the neck during an attempted purse snatching after parking on W. 20th Street.
- Investigators used a Flock license-plate reader to locate the stolen SUV, pursued it about 10 miles, recovered two guns after a crash, and arrested Hall following a SWAT standoff in an empty apartment.
- A prosecutor told the court Hall admitted evading police and being in the vehicle but denied firing the shot; records show he was on juvenile community supervision for prior violent and vehicle-related offenses, and a state bail hearing is set for March 23.