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David Makes Man star Akili McDowell has been charged with homicide in a Houston, Texas, capturing that occurred in an house complicated parking zone final month.
“On July 20, 2024, Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies responded to an incident that occurred within the parking zone of an house complicated at 13503 North Thorntree, close to Wallisville and Uvalde (East Harris County),” Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Ed Gonzalez wrote in a Fb assertion on Saturday, August 3. “An grownup male (presumably in his 20s) sustained gunshot wounds and was pronounced deceased on the scene. Suspect(s) fled the scene.”
McDowell, 21, was arrested and booked on Thursday, August 1, into the Harris County Jail on a $400,000 bond with expenses of homicide and theft, per TVLine. The sufferer was recognized as 20-year-old Cesar Peralta.
“Arrest replace: Murder Investigators charged Akili McDowell (21) with homicide within the capturing loss of life of Cesar Peralta (20). McDowell was lately taken into custody and booked into the Harris County Jail,” Gonzalez wrote by way of Fb. “The investigation is on-going and we encourage anybody with information to contact the Murder Unit at 713-274-9100.”
McDowell has a court docket look on Tuesday, August 6, for the theft cost and on October 9 for the homicide cost, per Deadline.
In an announcement to Legislation&Crime, McDowell’s supervisor Jonell Whitt mentioned on Monday, “[T]his is an unlucky state of affairs and I’m in prayer for Akili and people impacted by this tragedy. I respectfully don’t have any remark presently.”
Akili McDowell. Steve Granitz/WireImage
Us Weekly reached out to McDowell’s rep.
McDowell is finest recognized for his position in David Makes Man, the place he starred because the sequence’ titular character. After the sequence premiered in 2019, McDowell opened up about how he associated to David.
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“That’s why it was so vital to me that I get this audition as a result of, actually, with David being raised by a single mom and him feeling like he needed to be the person of the home at such an early age and make all these grown people’ selections and issues like that, I’ve additionally felt like that in my life,” McDowell advised Vulture in 2019. “He simply desires to be there for his mother. She doesn’t gotta fear about David. That’s what he desires. David’s gonna do his job; David gonna get issues completed. And I felt that method in my life as nicely.”
