Bastrop, Tx–A shooting death Saturday near Red Rock landed a 29-year-old man in the Bastrop County Jail under $150,000 bail.
Troy Alden Whiteside is charged with murder. Sheriff’s department dispatch records suggest that it was Whiteside who called 911 at 6:45 p.m. Sept. 5 reporting an incident at 1200 Sand Hills Rd.
Investigators said Chance Ray Smith, 23, “had been shot multiple times” and was pronounced dead at Lakeside Hospital in Bastrop. A Sept. 8 announcement from the sheriff’s department said “details surrounding the shooting death are still under investigation.”
A jail photograph of Whiteside distributed with today’s press announcement showed the suspect with bruising around his left eye.
Smith’s death is the second homicide recorded in Bastrop County since mid August, when an 18-year-old and his 14-year-old girlfriend were charged with murder in the Aug. 14 shooting death of the girl’s mother, Tracy Bellard, 42, in McDade. Both suspects in that case, Joseph Dwayne Douglas and the juvenile, remain in custody.