Brian Coulter, 31, is seen in a booking photo after his November 23, 2020, arrest on a gun possession charge in Luling, Texas
Just days after the boyfriend in the Houston House of Horrors case allegedly beat an eight-year-old boy to death last November, he was arrested at a convenience store 140 miles away, where police say he was found drunk, possibly high and armed with a gun.
Brian Coulter, 31, is being held on $1million bond in Houston, having been charged with felony murder for the killing of eight-year-old Kendrick Lee, whose skeletal remains were found in an apartment alongside the boy's three starving brothers last weekend.
Gloria Williams, 35, Coulter's girlfriend and the boys' mother, is charged with injury to a child by omission, injury to a child with serious bodily harm and tampering with evidence.
In a recent jailhouse interview, Williams claimed she did not know her son Kendrick was dead, and defended abandoning her other children for more than six months by saying that she would 'check on them every two weeks.'
Law enforcement authorities in Harris County have said that Coulter allegedly killed Kendrick sometime around Thanksgiving Day 2020, but the revelation concerning his previously arrest suggests that the fatal beating took place between November 20-23.
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Just days after Coulter allegedly beat 8-year-old Kendrick Lee to death in Houston, he was found drunk at this Buc'ee's convenience store in Luling, located 140 miles away
Just a day or two after Coulter allegedly punched and kicked the autistic, non-verbal eight-year-old, killing him and leaving his body to rot in the CityParc II apartment with his brothers, the man was found drunk at a Buc'ee's convenience store in Luling - a town of 5,800 located 140 miles away from Houston.
Luling Chief of Police Bill Sala told ABC13 the manager of the store called 911 at around 7am and requested a welfare check on Coulter, whom he suspected of being armed with a gun.
An officer who responded to the scene encountered Coulter and Williams, who was a passenger in his car.
Sala said that Coulter allegedly told the officer he was tired because he and Williams had driven from Houston to San Antonio and were returning back to Houston.
Coulter was cited for marijuana possession and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, a .45-caliber handgun. He was booked into the county jail on November 23 and bonded out on November 29.
Williams was also cited for marijuana possession but was let go.
Two weeks before the couple's arrest in connection with Kendricks' killing, Sala said Coulter called the Luling Police Department demanding that his gun, which had been confiscated last year, be returned to him.
'In a highly intoxicated state, he did cuss out my administrative assistant, and she told him I would call him back, which I have not,' Sala said.
Coulter made his initial court appearance in the murder case on Thursday.
Coulter made his initial court appearance in Houston on Thursday to face a charge a felony murder for the killing of his girlfriend's 8-year-old son
Coulter acknowledged that he understood the felony murder charge, and signed documents barring him from contacting the victim's siblings
If he is able to pay his $1million bond, Coulter will be required to wear a GPS monitor and remain under house arrest
Coulter (left) is accused of beating to death girlfriend Gloria Williams' (right) son in November 2020 and leaving his body to rot in a Houston apartment with his siblings
Kendrick Lee, 8 (pictured in white) was said to have been punched and kicked all over his body until he stopped moving
A judge read the charge against Coulter aloud and asked the defendant if he understood it. Coulter repeated the charge he is facing back to the judge.
On Wednesday, the judge set Coulter's bond at $1million, although he did not attended that earlier hearing because he was on a mental health hold.
During his first appearance, Coulter signed documents barring him from making any contact with his girlfriend Gloria Williams' three surviving sons.
If he makes bond, Coulter will be required to wear a GPS ankle monitor, remain under house arrest and avoid contacting Williams, reported KPRC.
Prosecutor Andrea Beall, who only handles child fatalities as part of her job, told KPRC this case stands out.
'This is the only type of case I deal with, and I will say this particular case is such a gross deviation from what we expect human beings to behave like that it has been very emotional and taxing on the investigators, the DA’s office,,' she said, 'and the priority should be
