SAN ANGELO, TEXAS -- Over the past month, 69 people have been formally indicted. Out of those 69, Michael Gary Keene was formally indicted for manslaughter, a second-degree felony, for his involvement in a hit-and-run accident that left 23-year-old Gisele Jarmon dead in June of 2015.
About two years ago, at 7 a.m. Tuesday, June 16, 2015, a woman in her twenties was found next to the roadway of the access road in the 4500 block of the Houston Harte Expressway near Cavender’s Western Wear and Olive Garden Restaurant. At the time of the incident, Police sent the found body to autopsy and CID, CSI, and traffic investigators responded to investigate the discovery. In Keene’s indictment document, Detective Michael Gaeta, who was one of the detectives to respond to the scene, was able to identify evidence on the crime scene as a "part of a lighting assembly to a 1996-2001 Toyota Camry.” Justice of the Peace J.P. McGuire formally pronounced the victim dead.
That same day, police officers received a tip in regards to the possible hit-and-run accident that took the life of the young woman found earlier that Tuesday morning. Officers knocked on the door of Keene’s apartment at the Emerald Point complex in the 3400 block of Arden Road. There, Keene turned himself in. Keene’s gold Toyota Camry was located at roughly 1:30 p.m. by Officer Mike Gesch. Detectives, crime scene technicians and officers swarmed the apartment complex’s parking lot Tuesday afternoon, and escorted Keene, who was wearing jeans and a grey shirt, out at approximately 2 p.m. According to court documents, Officer Mike Gesch with the San Angelo Police Department “observed damage to the driver side of the vehicle and to the front windshield.” Furthermore, Officer Gesch “observed what appeared to be hair in the broken windshield of the vehicle.”
Further investigation into Keene’s text messages confirmed Keene’s involvement. In text messages sent to a Kayln Drake, Keene wrote that he had been in a wreck and explained that after he “took the exit to his apartment … he had hit something near the Olive garden Restaurant.”
At 11 p.m. that same Tuesday, Keene was booked into the county jail on one count of accident involving death, a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison and a fine not to exceed $10,000. He was held in lieu of a $50,000 surety bond.
According to his Facebook page, which has since been deleted, Keene was a freelance writer for local newspaper The San Angelo Standard-Times.
A Grand Jury convened on May 31 and formally indicted Keene. Keene’s formal indictment sheet reads that Keene, on the 16th day of June, 2015, “then and there recklessly cause[d] the death of an individual, namely, Gisele Jarmon, by driving a motor vehicle into and colliding with the said Gisele Jarmon, and the defendant (Keene) was reckless due to one or more of the following reasons: failing to keep a proper lookout under the circumstances then existing while operating said motor vehicle; and/or driving said motor vehicle at an unsafe speed under the circumstances then existing; and/or operating said motor vehicle after ingesting alcohol.”
Keene is scheduled for a formal jury trial this coming July.
Other Individuals Charged with Murder
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The Grand Jury also formally indicted Robert Lamar Miller and Ludonna Gail Yoder for the death of Naomi Michelle Miller. Naomi Miller, who had been missing for a period of several years, possibly since 2005, was found buried beneath the old San Angelo Speedway March 7, 2017.
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On March 14, 2017 both Robert Miller and Yoder were arrested for the murder of Naomi Miller. The State accused the couple, who claimed they were married in a 2007 newspaper article, of concealing Naomi's body under the floor in their Glass Road residence before moving the body to the south side of the former San Angelo Speedway off of FM 2105 months later.
On June 7, 2017, the couple was formally indicted. Click here for the grisly details listed in official court documents on the death of Naomi Miller.
Details on further individuals formally indicted on May 31 are forthcoming.
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