A man charged in a 2025 homicide on Carroll Street in Texarkana, Texas, is scheduled for a final pretrial hearing Tuesday in Bowie County District Court. Benjamin Cole Brem, 25, is charged with murder in the May 2025 shooting death of Jaylen Betts. The hearing is before 102nd District Judge Jeff Addison at the Bi-State Justice Building. According to court documents, Brem's jury trial is set for Nov. 17. He is represented by court-appointed attorney Jeff Harrelson.
Police responded after midnight on May 10, 2025, to reports of gunfire at a house in the 1300 block of Carroll Street. Betts and a 52-year-old man were inside. The older man was treated for his injuries at a local hospital.
Brem was arrested June 2, 2025, in Houston and remains in the Bowie County Detention Center on a $1.68 million bond. He is also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and robbery in an ATM robbery in Wake Village, Texas, that happened days before his arrest. A second suspect, Phajae LaJonte Moore, 20, was arrested in Houston on a bond forfeiture warrant and returned to Bowie County on June 4, 2025. Moore is held on a $1.65 million bond, is represented by court-appointed attorney John Delk, and has a Dec. 15 trial date.