A 19-year-old Vidor man considered a “person of interest” in the murder of a 14-year-old girl in Buna Sunday night was found dead in Orange County about noon today. Justice of the Peace Derry Dunn said the man, identified as Paul Aubrey Adams, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
He said the man had driven off FM 1135 and then drove about a mile down the bank of a canal before shooting himself.
Dunn said the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of the girl.
KJAS in Jasper reports that Tristan Dilley was found dead in a house in Buna Sunday night. Sheriff Mitchell Newman said she died of a gunshot wound from a small caliber gun. She would have had her 15th birthday Tuesday.
Her father found her upstairs at her mother’s house in Buna. The girl was a ninth grade student in Silsbee. The 19-year-old Vidor man had been her boyfriend.
Sheriff Newman said a cell phone company helped track the man’s phone to the location on the canal in Orange County. Deputies tracking him found his body.
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