When cops shoot and kill civilians in the United States, they rarely get indicted for anything. It’s rarer still when they get charged with murder and even rarer than that when they are actually convicted of a crime — usually manslaughter, if anything. That’s what makes Tuesday afternoon’s events just…
Roy Oliver killed Jordan Edwards. The ex-Balch Springs police officer fired his rifle into a Chevrolet Impala driving away from a party in the eastern Dallas County town in April 2017 five times. Oliver hit Edwards, 15, in the head, killing the Mesquite High School freshman. None of those facts…
A Dallas esports player was among those injured when a gunman opened fire at a Jacksonville, Florida, video game tournament, killing two players before taking his own life Sunday afternoon. Player Drini Gjoka of the CompLexity Gaming team based in Dallas was one of the competitors at the Madden NFL…
Shock and disbelief were still on the faces of many who gathered last night in Lewisville for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Ashton Ness, a 16-month-old boy who police say was killed by his father, Blair on Aug. 19. Motorcycle clubs, police officers, pastors and residents from across DFW…
Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway has agreed to plead guilty to two federal corruption charges, according to documents filed Thursday morning. Caraway, now serving his fifth non-consecutive term on the Council, accepted $450,000 from Robert Leonard and Slater Smartwood Sr., both former executives with Force Multiplier Solutions.
Let it never be said that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is incapable of reaction. Since the election of President Donald Trump, he’s molded his priorities in the shape of the president, focusing on issues like “sanctuary cities,” a term we’re still waiting for him to define. After eight students and…
Former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver will be tried in Dallas, a judge ruled Tuesday, shutting down an attempt by Oliver’s attorneys to have their client’s case moved to a different county. Oliver is set to go on trial for murder later this month, after shooting and killing a…
The bar that served mass-murderer Spencer Hight minutes before he killed eight people, including his estranged wife, at an NFL watch party in Plano is voluntarily giving up its liquor license on Aug. 1, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said Monday. The bar, Local Public House, did not admit any…
Dallas Park Board member Jesse Moreno believes the way for the city to achieve a better tomorrow is by facing up bravely to some very bad yesterdays. In particular, he wants the city to remember and understand July 24, 1973, the day 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez was murdered by Dallas police…
For several hours in the immediate aftermath of the downtown Dallas ambush that left five police officers dead on July 7, 2016, Mark Hughes was the most wanted man in America. Now, more than two years later and with his name fully cleared, he is suing Dallas and the Dallas…
Getting home from his holiday shift Wednesday, Dallas police Officer Nick Novello decided, not for the first time, that he’d had enough. After another understaffed stint at the Central Patrol Division, Novello sat down and wrote a letter to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, continuing a series of warnings he’s issued…
Three Dallas Police Department officers — two senior corporals and a sergeant — turned themselves in Thursday afternoon on gambling promotion charges. DPD declined to name the law enforcement agency Sgt. Shannon Browning, Senior Cpl. Edward Van Meter and Senior Cpl. Roger Williams, turned themselves into. Their arrests are the latest in a…
A police chase that began with a suspicious person call, crossed through three cities and shut down part of a major highway ended after the man driving the car being chased won a struggle with a pursuing police officer for the officer’s gun, the Dallas Police Department said late Tuesday…
As of Wednesday afternoon, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have racked up exactly one conviction in their quest to root out voter fraud in Dallas County. Miguel Hernandez, 28, arrested in July for illegal voting, pleaded guilty to improperly returning a marked ballot,…
We all have that certain little what-the bell that rings in our heads when things don’t add up. What-the bells must have been ringing all over town last week when people saw the news story saying that the new Dallas chief of police, U. Renee Hall, slapped her boyfriend eight…
Less than a month after being released from Tarrant County jail, Tonya Couch is a wanted woman again. Thursday night, Tarrant County authorities arrested Couch after revoking the affluenza mom’s $75,000 bail. Couch, just as she was in March, is accused of failing a urinalysis, violating the portion of her…
People in the Oak Lawn/Cedar Springs area were already on alert from a recent spate of assaults and robberies that hit Dallas’ gayborhood within about a month. Then came Memorial Day weekend. Early in the morning of May 26, a mugger assaulted and tried to rob a man behind the…
McKinney is still having problems with pool parties. This week, the city and Dajerria Becton, the teenager pinned to the ground by a McKinney police officer trying to break up a pool party in 2015, settled a lawsuit that claimed the officer used excessive force. What might have been a…
Four and a half years after she shot unarmed teen Kelvion Walker in the stomach, former Dallas police Senior Corp. Amy Wilburn pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of illegally discharging a firearm. She’ll serve 18 months probation after entering a guilty plea to the lesser of two charges…
Nicole Hall’s was the house her friends could go to when their parents kicked them out. “We became part of her household,” Mieko Hicks, an old friend, said Saturday evening, at a vigil hosted in Hall’s name. Hicks and others began their transitions with Hall, a leader in circle of…
The story had all the hallmarks of a potboiler for the internet age — race, police misconduct, violence against women, Twitter, police cameras. A black North Texas woman accused a white law enforcement officer of sexually assaulting her during an arrest. She hired a civil rights attorney to represent her,…
In the entire incident report chronicling the shooting death of a Dallas police officer and two other nonfatal shootings by a man at a Dallas Home Depot store April 24, the most terrible and heart-stopping line is this: “Body camera footage shows that as Officers [Crystal] Almeida and [Rogelio] Santander…
