Suspect in Fatal Longview Shooting Moved to Gregg County Jail

LONGVIEW — An accused killer has been transferred to East Texas after being found out of state. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report that Paul Anthony Mengel has been placed in the Gregg County Jail under $500,000 bond on a charge of murder. Mengel was moved from a jail in Louisiana after being captured there last week. Mengel, 27, was arrested July 23 at his Bossier City home on a warrant issued by Longview police in connection with the fatal shooting of Joey Lee Espy. Espy, 19, was found shot to death July 7 at a house in the 300 block of Bonner Street in South Longview after a woman called 911 saying she and her boyfriend had been shot.

Mengel was taken into custody by members of the U.S. Marshal’s Violent Offender Task Force and police officers from Bossier City and Shreveport, who executed the Longview arrest warrant. That’s according to a statement issued last week by Bossier City police.