Arson Suspect Returned to Gregg County
Posted/updated on: March 29, 2019 at 2:39 pm
GREGG COUNTY — A Longview woman who was indicted in August in connection with a 2018 duplex fire that killed two people has been transferred to the Gregg County Jail from Denton County. According to the Longview News Journal and our news partner, KETK, Kimberly Nicole Bruton, 33, was being held on a $200,000 bond Wednesday in Gregg County Jail on a warrant for arson causing bodily injury/death and without bond on a warrant from the 124th District Court for bond forfeiture for the same offense. Bruton was released from the Denton County Jail on Tuesday for time served after being arrested there May 23 on an unrelated arson charge.
Bruton faces prosecution in connection with a fire March 9, 2018, that killed Randall Russell and his daughter, Lisa Tesmer, at the duplex they shared on Cherie Lane.
