Smith County Murder Charges Dropped

TYLER – Only one of five persons arrested in a Smith County murder last year is still charged in the case. Judicial records show that the murder charges against Nathan Ryan Garcia, 20, of Whitehouse, and Colton Wade Tate, 21, of Tyler, were dismissed earlier this week. They had been charged in the November 2017 shooting death of Andrew Carpenter. He was shot at a home on Deerwood Drive. Two other persons arrested in the case had previously had charges against them dismissed. That leaves only Martin Wesley Reynolds Jr., 21, of Whitehouse (pictured) still charged in the death. He remains in the Smith County Jail under a $750,000 bond