2 Houston robbery suspects arraigned after police shooting

Published March 19, 2016

Two robbery suspects arrested after a deadly police-involved shooting have been arraigned.

Houston television station KTRK reports (http://abc13.co/22ucTBN ) that Lontay Young and Ross White-Leonard faced a judge Friday night on aggravated robbery with a weapon charges. A third suspect, Barry Jones, is in the hospital. He's expected to be charged upon his release.

Two other suspects were killed in the Thursday evening shooting, which happened when a tactical team opened fire outside of a Houston furniture store after a day of tracking the group of five robbery suspects.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences identified the two men killed as Scott Bennett and Christopher Nelms.

Young was being held without bond at the Harris County inmate processing center. Details were not immediately available about White-Leonard.

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Information from: KTRK-TV, http://abclocal.go.com

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