HALTOM CITY -- A Haltom City woman with two previous driving while intoxication convictions was arraigned on a charge of murder Wednesday morning in the traffic death of a motorcyclist, police said.
Tammy Sue Stegall, 50, was in the Haltom City Jail with bail set at $500,000.
Initially, Stegall was in jail on suspicion of intoxication manslaughter, but the charge was changed to murder because of her two DWI convictions in Tarrant County, police said.
One of those convictions was in Haltom City following another accident in 2008, authorities said.
Police identified the victim as Billy Stroud, 56, of Bedford. According to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s Web site, Stroud died about 2 p.m. Tuesday at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.
Police arrested Stegall at the scene of the accident Tuesday morning.
The accident was reported about 10:40 a.m. in the 5800 block of Belknap Street near Denton Highway.
The woman was driving a Nissan Maxima that rear-ended the motorcycle on Belknap Street, police said.
“They were both traveling westbound when she came up behind him and hit the motorcycle,” Haltom City police Sgt. Eric Peters said today. “She pushed the motorcycle for some distance.”
When officers arrived, Stroud was found lying in the roadway, police said.
Stegall was in her car parked on the side of the street as officers arrived, Peters said.
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