Police in two jurisdictions 1,700 miles apart are looking at whether a dispute during an online game prompted a California man to drive to Texas to kill an 18-year-old man and then drive back home, where he killed himself, over a 72-hour period, the Flower Mound Police Department said. Flower Mound police found Matthew Thane …
* UPDATE: 10 P.M.* Three police officers were in stable condition Sunday afternoon after they were shot responding to a call in Cedar Park, Texas, where a suspect is barricaded inside a home. Cedar Park Interim Police Chief Mike Harmon told reporters Sunday night that officers responded to the residence shortly after 3 p.m. when …
Authorities in Texas are still looking for an elderly woman who reportedly vanished last month after winning a large cash prize at a bingo hall. Carolyn Riggins, 69, reportedly has partial dementia and was possibly last seen on July 11 at Watauga Road Bingo in Watauga. Her family told WFAA that Riggins won a sizable …
A Texas police officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing her neighbor in his own apartment filed an appeal Tuesday to have her 2019 murder conviction overturned. Lawyers representing Amber Guyger requested the former Dallas police officer be convicted of negligent homicide instead of murder. The defense team also asked for …
A Texas father who allegedly beat his toddler son shortly before his death Saturday may face upgraded criminal charges. KTRK reported that Antonio Hicks Sr., 21, was charged with serious bodily injury to a child for striking his son, Antonio Hicks Jr., 2, several times while potty training him. The toddler died at a hospital …
Police in Texas are asking for the public’s help locating a man who reportedly hasn’t been seen or heard from in the past three weeks. The Round Rock Police Department announced Friday in a bulletin that they have reason to believe Christopher Branham, 26, is “endangered.” Branham was last seen June 24 at the Red …
A 60-year-old Texas man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a 41-year-old woman whose body was found last month in a black, 50-gallon tote box floating on Kentucky Lake, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported. Investigators say that Traci Leigh Jones had been producing pornography with Jeffrey Rogers and his wife, elementary …
An Army investigator said this week that a promotion for Vanessa Guillen made her the same rank as a suspect in her death and disappearance, Spc Aaron Robinson, and that he was “in no way in her chain of command.” The Army said in a statement that Guillen was promoted from private first class to …
Remains found earlier this week east of Fort Hood in Texas are those of Pfc Vanessa Guillen, her family told the Washington Post on Sunday. According to the Post, family members said that Army investigators had made the positive identification, 2 1/2 months after Guillen’s disappearance from the base. The discovery of the remains on …
A Texas woman was charged with beating her 5-year-old goddaughter to death last week and blaming the girl’s injuries on dust mites, KFDM reported. When medics responded to the home last Friday, they found Brenika Lott, 32, performing CPR on Daviana Landry, who “was completely nude and had apparent bruising on her arms, chest and …
Authorities believe a Texas man fatally shot his pregnant girlfriend Monday afternoon before he took another woman’s car at gunpoint. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that Darionne Burley, 26, was found dead in the front passenger seat of a car parked in a lot in Mansfield. Police were called to the scene after a woman reported …
Netflix star Joe Exotic has been moved out of isolation and into a medical unit at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, according to a post on his Instagram account. According to the post, the Tiger King — real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage — had been in isolation because of the COVID outbreak for …
