Nelms on workplace shooting suspect: 'My client is presumed innocent just like anyone that is charged with a crime'

A state district judge ruled Friday (March 18) to keep the bond for a 26-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his supervisor earlier this week at $500,000, Houston NBC affiliate KPRC reported. Montavius Wright faces a homicide charge for allegedly killing 48-year-old Doran Kelly at an office building in Houston's Greenway Plaza on Wednesday (March 16).

Wright and Kelly worked for Cedar Gate Technologies in the 3800 block of Cummins. Authorities told KPRC that the shooting occurred just before noon.

The station reported that Wright appeared before Judge Colleen Gaido of the 337th State District Court Friday.

The suspect was accompanied by his defense attorney, Tolu Nelms of the Omodele Nelms Law Firm, PLLC in Houston. 

Two relatives of Wright's were in the courtroom, according to KPRC.

"My client is presumed innocent just like anyone that is charged with a crime," Nelms told the station.

Nelms requested the bond be lowered as her client couldn't make the present one, the station reported.

Gaido instead granted the prosecutor's request to set another bond hearing at an unspecified date, according to KPRC. 

Authorities said Wright didn't have problems as an employee of Cedar Gate Technologies.

Houston ABC affiliate KTRK reported that shooting caused a panic throughout the 20 Greenway Plaza building just when workers were to go on their lunch breaks. 

Some employees purportedly took cover in other rooms while others called 911.

According to the station, police arrested Wright outside of a Downtown Houston high-rise apartment six miles from Greenway Plaza.

Kelly is survived by a wife and two daughters.