Antonio Marquis Willis

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Antonio Marquis Willis

Antonio Marquis Willis is a man from Killeen, Texas who has been charged with 1st-degree murder. ^[undefined]

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Willis is a well-known character by the Killeen Police Department as he has been in trouble with the law many times.

He has a conviction for burglary of a habitation, which was downgraded to burglary of a building.

A state jail felony, in January 2009 after first being charged as a first-degree and then a second-degree felony.

Willis’ case was heard in the Bell County 27th District Court.

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A second burglary of a habitation conviction in March 2012, first charged as a second-degree felony, was reduced to theft from a person, a state jail felony.

He was sentenced to one year in jail, also from the 27th District Court.

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The remainder of Willis’ convictions included those for misdemeanor marijuana drug offenses, false statements for property/credit and failure to identify fugitive with intent to give false information.

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Willis was in the Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville twice, and was last released May 16, 2013.

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It has been reported by Killeen Police that Donte Samuels had a falling out with another man over a windshield and that after throughout the day, he visited a residence for a total of three times - and was told to go away and to leave.

On third one, after Willis insisting Samuels not to come back, he shot him in cold blood.

Samuels reportedly ran away from Willis and was his body was later found dead with blood dripping onto the street in the yard of a home in the 300 block of South 56th Street in Killeen.

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On February 2nd, 2017, Willis turned himself in and has been charged with murder.

He was arraigned and transferred to Bell County Jail. ^[undefined]

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On February 9th, Bell County Justice of the Peace Dr. Claudia L. Brown set Willis' bail at $4 billion for a charge of first-degree murder, a number confirmed by Killeen police. The jail's booking software doesn't recognize amounts that high, so his bail shows up in the system as a bunch os 9s in a row. ^[undefined]

The bail exceeds from any other in the history of the United States. ^[8]