Sherman police announce four more arrests in Kedaylen Holt homicide investigation

Sherman police have arrested four more people in the investigation of Kedaylen Holt's killing, the Sherman Police Department announced. The department named the four as Damian Boyd, Kyra Jacobs, Alexis Watson and Jayleigh Bowens and said each faces separate charges. Police had previously arrested Zejorian Walker in the same case.

The department made the announcement in a post on its official Facebook page. In the post, police said investigators found evidence that more than one person acted to keep Walker from being caught or obstructed parts of the inquiry into Holt's death. The department described the four arrests as additional ones in the same homicide case.

Walker was arrested Aug. 4, 2026, Police Chief Jason Jeffcoat said in a video update the department posted on the investigation. According to Jeffcoat, Walker was being held on a murder charge and three aggravated-assault charges in the Holt case. The new announcement brings the number of people publicly named in the investigation to five, all of them identified through the department's own statements.

Texas law makes helping a suspect after a crime an offense of its own, separate from the crime under investigation. Section 38.05 of the Texas Penal Code defines hindering apprehension or prosecution as acting with intent to keep another person from being arrested, prosecuted, convicted or punished. Section 37.09 covers tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, which reaches altering, destroying or concealing evidence in an investigation or official proceeding, along with presenting evidence known to be false. The statutes describe categories of conduct. They do not establish what any individual defendant did. A charge is an accusation, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless convicted in court.

The department's 2024 annual report recorded one murder that year, down from three in 2023. The same report shows the Criminal Investigation Division was assigned 673 cases in 2024, compared with 665 the year before. The murder count fell over that span while the division's total caseload grew. Both figures come from the department's own published report rather than an outside tally.

Older Sherman cases remain in public view on the department's unsolved-major-cases page, which lists open homicide and missing-person files, among them a 2023 murder case involving Nikkoli Cameron von Nortwick. Readers who want trend figures rather than case-by-case coverage have first-party sources nearby as well: Denison posts its police department's annual reports on a city webpage, and Sherman's annual report comes directly from the department that compiles it.