The Jefferson County grand jury has indicted a Beaumont man for murder. 29-year old Kalin
Hicks is charged with the March 4th murder of 58-year old Byron Bluitt. Bluitt’s body was
found in an apartment in the 1800 block of North 11th in Beaumont. While being interviewed,
Hicks admitted to the murder. The homicide on Hicks’s 29th birthday.