A Walker County grand jury this week indicted two men on murder charges. However, a trial isn’t likely until late spring, District Attorney Herbert “Buzz” Franklin said.

Jose Medina and Donald Eugene Sharp are charged with the April 19 shooting of Bryan Dunbar Jewell.

According to this week’s indictment and authorities at the time of the shooting:

Walker deputies arrived at 806 Castleberry Drive, off Old Mineral Springs Road in LaFayette, and discovered the body of 45-year-old Jewell inside the residence.

The Emergency 911 Center had received an anonymous call from a pay telephone.

Medina was Jewell’s neighbor, and Sharp was a previous resident in the neighborhood.

Prosecutors believe Jewell was shot outside his residence and stumbled inside, where he collapsed in a bedroom. The fatal wound was to his abdomen.

The grand jury also indicted Medina and Sharp with criminal attempt for trying to set a box of newspapers on fire and throwing a Molotov cocktail inside Jewell’s house.

The grand jury indictment states the pair possessed a Mossberg Maverick 12-gauge shotgun and a Winchester .30-.30 rifle, likely used as the murder weapons.

Sharp is also accused of possessing marijuana at the time of the murder.

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