Austin police charged Jesse Carl Monroe II with murder in Jeffrey Grable's CapMetro bus-stop killing.

A murder charge from an arrest affidavit is the accusation. It is not a conviction. CBS Austin and Austin police accounts say Walmart surveillance showed a man approach Grable, leave, return, and appear to strike him with an object. Investigators found a bloody piece of concrete beside Grable's head. An autopsy ruled death by blunt-force trauma to the head a homicide.

CBS Austin reported Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, that Jesse Carl Monroe II, 33, is charged with murder, a first-degree felony, in the Oct. 6 death of Jeffrey Grable, 66, near a CapMetro bus stop at the Norwood Transit Center in Northeast Austin. The station, citing an arrest affidavit, said Walmart surveillance showed Grable arrive around 2:46 a.m. and lie down, and that around 3:48 a.m. a man in a white shirt and dark pants approached, lingered, then walked to a nearby gas station. The same man returned around 4:16 a.m. and appeared to strike Grable with an object before running through a parking lot and a fence gap onto Rutherford Lane.

A CapMetro bus driver called 911 around 5:18 a.m., CBS Austin reported. Officers found Grable unresponsive next to the bus-stop bench; he was pronounced dead at 5:34 a.m. Investigators found a piece of concrete with blood beside his head. An autopsy determined blunt-force trauma to the head and ruled the death a homicide. Those are the affidavit and autopsy lines the outlet reported. They are not a trial finding naming who swung the concrete.

Police released a suspect photo Oct. 7. That afternoon a woman called 911 and said the man in the photo was her son, the affidavit said. She told police Monroe was homeless, often spent time in the Rundberg area, took the bus through Norwood, had been violent in the past, and had been acting erratically. Officers later found him on a North Austin YMCA property where he had a criminal-trespass warning and arrested him for trespass. In a homicide interview he said he did not remember being near the Walmart or gas station. A detective noted black jogger pants similar to the video and a red stain that tested positive for blood. CBS Austin reported online jail records showed a $250,000 bond and that the killing was Austin's 45th homicide of the year. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.