Eagle Lake man sentenced to six years

Guilty verdict reached for 2019 aggravated assault case

An Eagle Lake man was sentenced to six years behind bars after being found guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on Nov. 12.

Tevin Dupree Cook, 31, of Eagle Lake took a guilty plea for the charge stemming back from a 2019 indictment, which included a charge for abandoning and endangering a child due to criminal negligence.

On March 17, 2019, Cook, according to prosecutors, threatened and purposefully injured a woman by hitting the woman’s car with his own vehicle causing “imminent bodily injury.” The weapon classified as “deadly” in this circumstance was the car Cook used to crash into the woman’s car.

The charge for endangering a child was allegedly due to a child being inside the same vehicle Cook was driving at the time of crashing into the woman. The child according to court documents was the child of the woman driving the other vehicle. The guilty plea did not include a guilty verdict for the endangerment charge, only being handed down for the aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.

Cook has already served 320 days out of his six-year sentence, and will continue to serve out the rest of his sentence at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.