learn more. Also tonight, an actor who starred on the Oprah Winfrey Network is now charged with murder. >> Once called a rising star. The 21 year old from Channelview is in jail on a $400,000 bond and new at ten. >> ABC Thirteen’s Jessica Willey learned what led up to the killing.
>> Akili McDowell was in court this morning. His next court date is in October. His credits include roles in TV series David Makes Man and Billions, and he was recently doing press for a movie that was released in June. Even posting about it after the shooting that landed him in jail on a murder charge. >> Once you make a choice day in the TV series, David makes Man, Akili McDowell plays a teen trying to escape the projects while haunted by the death of a friend.
>> In real life, people who live at this channelview apartment complex called McDowell, the weed Man Thorntree Apartments near Uvalde a far cry from the glamor of Hollywood. >> Ehling McDowell is charged with murder, and the 21 year old was arrested for murder on Thursday, accused of killing 20 year old Cesar Peralta, who had come to McDowell’s apartments.
>> Investigators believe, to buy drugs from him. The shooting happened two weeks ago on a Saturday evening. One neighbor tells me she heard two gunshots, ran outside.
The victim was lying on the ground right about here. She saw the suspect run back to his apartment, grabbed something before taking off in his car. It was the last time she saw him until his mugshot started circulating online. McDowell, a former North Shore High School student, was recently posting about The Waterboys, a movie he’s in that was released in June at his family’s home in Channelview this afternoon, two women declined to comment. The court asked.
During McDowell’s first court appearance, the prosecutor said the victim was shot multiple times.
I need a way out and the details of the shooting could have been a storyline in his breakout role, this defendant was seen talking to the complainant. >> They had a little fistfight, and then the defendant pulled out a pistol and shot him. Once when the complainant went to his car, he followed him, shooting him again and again. >> McDowell’s bond has been set at $400,000.
The actor declared indigent, according to court.
