Killeen, TX – The Bell County District Attorney’s Office is charging 49-year-old Raymond Cecil Kastner with murder.
On Saturday, November 12, 2022, at approximately 1:01 p.m., officers were dispatched to a 911 call in reference to a stabbing at the mosque located at 5600 State Highway 195. Upon the officers’ arrival, they located a male suffering from a stab wound. A second male was located and detained.
The preliminary investigation revealed that the victim and the suspect were in a business relationship, and both attended the mosque.
At the time of the incident occurred, both individuals were inside the mosque when the suspect stabbed the victim with a knife. The victim, 69-year-old Muhammad Idrees Kahn, was pronounced deceased at the scene at 1:37 p.m.
[The president of the mosque told KWTX the suspect was Kahn’s tenant and he was being evicted.]
#BREAKING – The Bell County District Attorney’s Office returned a complaint charging this man with murder in the killing of his landlord at the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen. INFO: https://t.co/ViHWZhO4TF pic.twitter.com/1dE1eeUW3K
— KWTX News 10 (@kwtx) November 14, 2022
Justice of the Peace Gregory Johnson arraigned Kastner setting his bond at $1,000,000. He is awaiting transport to the Bell County Jail.
This is the eighteenth murder victim for the City of Killeen this year.
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