Dallas Police Chief David Brown announced this afternoon he has ordered aggravated assault charges against 52-year-old Bobby Gerald Bennett to be dropped. Bennett is the mentally ill man shot on Monday by Dallas police officer Cardan Spencer. In an affidavit, DPD said that Bennett had approached officers with his knife…
Richard Keiper has built a life in Boyd, Texas. The Facebook photos posted by his wife show him at birthday parties and family gatherings often cradling his granddaughter with the awkward caution of someone not quite accustomed to caring for a creature so small. The 67-year-old doesn’t look the part…
In initial reports, Dallas police said they had good reason to open fire on Bobby Gerald Bennett. The 52-year-old schizophrenic had been acting erratically, reportedly saying he wanted to be shot by police. When they arrived at his cul-de-sac in the Rylie neighborhood of far southwest Dallas just after noon…
When a U.S. Postal Inspector interviewed Jessica Nicole Weatherread at the Keller Police Department on December 30, 2011, she made two things clear. One was that she didn’t steal the 400 pieces of open mail and packages addressed to Southlake residents that police had found scattered throughout her rental car…
On Monday night, a fully laden 7-Up trailer, much like the one you see above, vanished from the the Dr Pepper bottling plant in West Dallas. It simply disappeared. No trace. One minute it was there, the next it was gone. So stealthy was the disappearing act that employees didn’t…
Collette Flanagan has spent the past seven months rallying to have the cop who killed her son Clinton Allen put in jail. Nothing has worked, not her complaints against Dallas Police Chief David Brown, not her protest outside District Attorney Craig Watkins’ Grambling-Prairie View fundraiser, not Allen’s twin boys holding…
The question of who shot and killed 28-year-old Stephanie Terlisner on Saturday evening did not go unanswered for long. This morning, Dallas police released an affidavit pinning the murder on 19-year-old Ka’Darius Demond Barrett. According to the affidavit, it was about 7 p.m. Barrett burst through the front door of…
The man who walked into the Knox Street Apple Store with his family on Sunday afternoon was operating on a pair of assumptions. One was that no one would suspect the guy holding the small child of stealing a rechargeable iPhone battery. The other was that, if someone did, they…
In the lead up to this weekend’s UT-Oklahoma matchup, there was talk that dispirited Longhorns fans weren’t all that interested in watching their team get pummeled by the heavily favored Sooners. The evidence? Tickets for the burnt-orange side of the stadium were going for a paltry $209 each on the…
Whatever turns in Stephanie Terlisner’s life took her to the house at the end of Cool Morn Drive on Saturday evening, it was the wrong place and the wrong time. At about 7 p.m., an armed robber burst into the home and shot Terlisner in the chest, The Dallas Morning…
Update at 2:45 p.m.: Deion has reportedly been unfired. Update on October 11: Prime Prep Academy, the charter school that Deion Sanders co-founded, has fired Deion Sanders. The announcement comes in a terse press release from superintendent Rachel King-Sanders. “Effective immediately, Deion Sanders is no longer an employee or representative…
During his four years as an undergrad at UT-Dallas, Ross Ulbricht earned a handful of mentions on the school’s website. His name appeared on a list of students at the NanoTech Institute, on a 2004 press release about students competing in an academic tournament, on a handful of research papers…
Turns out, Michael John Yowell had nothing to worry about. A week after filing a federal lawsuit to delay his execution on the grounds that the state’s custom-made supply of pentobarbital, ordered hastily from a Houston-area compounding pharmacy last month, might cause an unconstitutional amount of suffering, the 43-year-old convicted…
Douglas Campbell has not been convicted of any crime. The allegations of sexual assault by a public servant, official oppression and theft, reported today by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Deanna Boyd, are exactly that — allegations. That said, we’re going to go out on a limb here and say that,…
The Delta Plaza apartment complex in South Dallas recently gave its tenants a little midweek surprise: On Thursday, they found out that they all had to move. Tenants say they got the news via a note on the door, apparently taped there by the property manager. “You have violated your…
From the start, something about Michelle Williams’ story just didn’t add up. She told police that a man, dressed in black and carrying a wrench, had broken into her Keller home one October morning and shot her husband, 40-year-old Gregory Williams, in the temple. But there was no sign of…
Death row inmate Michael Yowell’s last-minute, Hail Mary lawsuit, based on the claim that the state was going to experiment on him with untested execution drugs, failed to sway U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes. In an order handed down Saturday, he dismissed that as “a guess piled on an assumption”…
It’s always a thankless task, manning the counter at a convenience store, but it was particularly unpleasant for those who happened to be working the graveyard shift at southern Dallas 7-Elevens last night. In the span of just over an hour and a half, four of the stores were robbed…
Richard Slatkin must have appreciated the irony in his predicament. Here he was, a 66-year-old private investigator who caught cheating spouses for a living — whose stock and trade was sorting through lies to find something near the truth — and he was being divorced by a wife who had…
Earlier in the week, 59-year-old Robert Prichard learned he would be staying in jail for the time being. A Dallas County judge upped his bail to $50,000 on a felony animal cruelty charge and sent him back to Lew Sterrett. The upside for Prichard is that he now has more…
John Boehr, a 31-year-old opera singer from Carrollton, says he was violently mugged Thursday afternoon as he walked to choir practice in South Dallas. The attack happened at 3:10 p.m., as Boehr was en route to the Dallas Opera’s rehearsal facility at 4301 S. Fitzhugh, on the far eastern edge…
UPDATE: After this item ran, we sent a question to Texas Department of Criminal Justice public information director Jason Clark, asking him — not to put too fine a point on it — why Texas doesn’t just switch to an alternative method of execution altogether, like the electric chair. The…
