Waller Cycling Incident and the Legal Process

I don’t know that this is going to help explain anything, but here is how the criminal justice system works in relation to the Waller cycling incident. Perhaps this will be helpful for the people commenting from out of the State of Texas.

The Waller Police Department is it’s own legal governmental entity. They do not work for the Waller County D.A. or the Waller County Government. The Waller Police Department is a division of the City of Waller that is managed by a mayor and city council that hires the police chief. Waller County is not the City of Waller and the County of Waller has no authority over the decisions made by the City of Waller Police Department regarding who to arrest or not to arrest.

If you have complaints about how this case was handled by the Waller Police Department you may make those complaints directly to Mayor of Waller Mr. Danny Marburger or Police Chief William Llewellyn.

All cities in Texas send their cases to their local district attorney for review after the investigation is complete unless they are minor offenses that are handled by the city prosecutors. The lead prosecutor on this case is in communication with the Waller Police Department and gathering information from them as they make it available. We are also aware of the identity of the juvenile and can guarantee that from the perspective of this office he will receive no favorable or unfavorable treatment based upon who his family may or may not be.

Finally, I would ask that those who feel there is a need to call this office and tie up our phone lines to please stop. It isn’t helpful and the individuals answering the phones have done nothing to deserve to be verbally mistreated as they have no connection to the Waller Police Department or what happened out on the street.

We reiterate, THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS CASE that involves a juvenile and six individuals that thankfully are not deceased at this time. We hear your complaints, we understand your frustration, but this case WILL BE THOROUGHLY reviewed and justice will be done.

If you have any doubts about our commitment to protecting bicycle riders I suggest you read about our most recent conviction resulting in life in prison without parole for Victor Tome who killed two bicyclists in our county by running over them with his car.

I am also asking our local citizens to make an extra effort to stop and talk to bicyclists that are riding/stopping through our community over the next few months and to get to know them. We are all people that enjoy different hobbies, ways of exercising and working out, but at the end of the day we are all sons and daughters of someone that wants to see their son or daughter again after a bike or automobile ride.

UPDATE-November 10, 2021: Teen Charged in Waller County Cycling Incident