A Smith County grand jury has indicted a man accused of the murder of a Tyler woman in September.

The indictment filed on December 7, accuses Jamaurea Jermaine Britton, 19, of the murder of Deja Hood, 18.

Britton was charged with murder on September 25 after he admitted to beating Hood with a hammer, strangling and stabbing her before throwing her body into ravine behind the Hollytree Apartments.