The suspect in a fatal January shooting at the Walmart in west Starkville has been indicted for capital murder and aggravated assault.

An Oktibbeha County grand jury indicted 41-year-old William Thomas Chisholm, of Kosciusko, for the charges in June. Chisholm, who was arrested in January following the shooting, is being held in the Oktibbeha County Jail without bond.

Chisholm was charged with capital murder after a Jan. 13 shooting at the Walmart on Highway 12 West in Starkville where Chisholm killed 42-year-old Shauna Witt, an optometrist from Maben.

Police arrested Chisholm in the store parking lot after the shooting.

Witt was taken to OCH Regional Medical Center. She arrived at 9:58 a.m., and was pronounced dead seven minutes later, according to hospital public information officer Mary Kathryn Kight at the time

Starkville police initially arrested Chisholm on suspicion of murder. However, that charge was later upgraded to capital murder, with burglary as an underlying offense.

Witt, according to police, was in an “on again, off again” dating relationship with Chisholm.

Chisholm was out on $5,000 bond stemming from a Dec. 12 felony malicious mischief arrest in Kosciusko at the time of the shooting. Few details were available from that case at the time, though Kosciusko Police Chief Herbert Dew said Chisholm “took and destroyed” some of Witt’s personal items and clothing. The case remained under investigation at the time of the shooting, though Dew said the Starkville shooting case might delay its conclusion.

Chisholm also faces an aggravated assault charge. According to court documents, a bullet from Chisholm’s Springfield 9-millimeter pistol passed through the Jacket of Kaylace Beatty, a bystander.

Chisholm also has a $100,000 bond on the aggravated assault charge.

Alex Holloway was formerly a reporter with The Dispatch.