A Coryell County grand jury indicted 16-year-old James Michael Grant II this week on a murder charge in the stabbing death of his father, also named James Michael Grant, a Coryell County District Court coordinator said Friday.

Grant, of Gatesville, was certified to stand trial as an adult in March.

The elder Grant’s body was found wrapped in a sheet early Sept. 15 on a county road. Investigators determined that Grant, 44, had been killed at his home east of Gatesville and his body moved.

John Tarrell Hopkins, 26, was arrested Oct. 29. Police also arrested the younger Grant and his mother, Leslie Megan Lewis-Grant, 43.

Arrest documents said Hopkins confessed during a jail interview with sheriff’s investigators to killing the elder Grant.

The younger Grant allegedly called Hopkins one night and said his father was sleeping, the documents stated. Hopkins reportedly came to Grant’s house on Rocky Road near Gatesville and went into the father’s bedroom.

While the younger Grant waited in the hallway, Hopkins stole a 9 mm handgun and some cash from his father’s wallet, said a prayer and stabbed him in his sleep, the documents stated.

The younger Grant came into the room and stomped on his father’s chest before the two picked up the body and loaded it into the back of a white Chevrolet truck, arrest documents stated.

Hopkins and Grant cleaned themselves while Lewis-Grant burned their bloody clothing. She later stuffed the remains of the clothes into garbage bags that Hopkins threw away in two different locations, the documents said.

Lewis-Grant and Hopkins remained at the Coryell County Jail late Tuesday, with Lewis-Grant held in lieu of $600,000 bond on retaliation and capital murder charges and Hopkins held in lieu of $1.05 million bond on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.

Information about the younger Grant’s incarceration was not available Friday.