COLLEGE STATION MAN ACCUSED OF BEATING ROOMMATE TO DEATH INDICTED ON MURDER CHARGE
A College Station man accused of beating and killing his roommate with a baseball bat has been indicted by a Brazos County grand jury.
(Brazos Co. Jail)
25-year-old Luis Leonardo Solis was indicted Thursday on a first-degree murder charge. The indictment comes two months after the body of Solis’s roommate, 35-year-old Osiel Benitez-Herrera, was found inside their shared mobile home off Texas Avenue in College Station.
According to police reports, detectives found inconsistencies with what they were told by Solis, who claimed he found Benitez-Herrera dead inside their home after coming home from shopping.
When officers arrived at the scene shortly before midnight May 7th, following a 911 call from Solis, they found Benitez-Herrera in the living room with several serious injuries and a large amount of blood.
Investigators, according to reports, found after reviewing surveillance footage that no one besides Solis had entered the mobile home park around the time of Benitez-Herrera’s death. They also found that Solis changed his shoes at some point, before he met with detectives.
Family members of Benitez-Herrera told police he said he had been threatened by Solis in the past. They said the two had only lived together for four months.
Solis remains in the Brazos County Jail on $325,000 bond.