2025-09-17

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5 years later, Amarillo man to face murder charge in 2020 shooting

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - A man has been formally charged for a 2020 murder in southwest Amarillo.

In recently unsealed court records, 26-year-old Xylon Trent Martin, is said to have caused the death of Tremaine Haynes on July 28, 2020.

As we previously reported, Amarillo police officers were called to Southwest 27th Avenue and Britain Drive around 3:35 a.m. for shots fired.

Officers arrived to find 31-year-old Haynes dead in the parking lot. Police said he had suffered several gunshot wounds to his body.

An indictment for Martin was filed October 2022.

Martin was booked into Potter County Detention Center last week and informed of his murder charge. His bond is set at $500,000.

The significant gap in prosecution is because Martin has been serving a prison sentence for a significant incident that took place shortly after Haynes’ death.

We previously reported that on Aug. 13, 2020, the Randall County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team went to a home at 4212 Garland to execute a search warrant.

During the search, one of the bedroom doors had a “shotgun booby trap” set up to go off when the door was opened, according to officials.

Mugshot of Xylon Martin in August 2020

Mugshot of Xylon Martin in August 2020(Randall County)

The trap went off, missing two SWAT officers “by inches”, according to an RCSO release.

The men arrested were identified as 24-year-old Brenton Tucker and 21-year-old Xylon Martin.

Martin was charged with three counts of theft of firearm, a count of fraud, and a count of drug possession.

He was convicted and sentenced to serve five years in prison in May 2021, well over a year before the murder indictment was filed in Potter County.