Shootings

Dallas Teen Shot By "Reckless" Dallas Police Officer Now Seeking More Than $10 Million

Kelvion Walker, the 20-year-old Dallas man shot by police officer Amy Wilburn as he sat in a car with his hands up in December 2013, has amended his federal lawsuit to claim higher damages against Wilburn after Dallas Police Department brass criticized Wilburn in depositions last week. As Sky Chadd ... More >>

Dallas Tows That Went Horribly So Wrong That Someone Was Maimed Or Killed

A Dallas tow company called Longhorn Wrecker may soon owe the state $88,900 in fines over towing violations. Reached for comment a few weeks ago, a bitter company representative said it was "all bullshit" and that his company had never been in trouble before. He apparently wasn't taking into account ... More >>

Dallas Police Department Brass Calls a Police Shooting "Reckless"

Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com In December of last year, Kelvion Walker became another black teenager shot by a police officer. He had jumped into the passenger's seat of a car his friend had stolen without his knowledge, but his friend bailed when Officer Amy Wilburn approached. This left Walker alone ... More >>

More Family Members of Jason Harrison Sue the Two Cops Who Shot and Killed Him

After Jason Harrison's father sued the city, the Dallas Police Department and the two officers who shot and killed his son, Harrison's mother and brother, David, have filed a lawsuit of their own. They claim Harrison, a schizophrenic, posed no threat when officers John Rogers and Andrew Hutchins, k ... More >>

Community Organization Says Dallas Police Miss Target When Tallying Shootings

Dallas Communities Organizing for Change, which has been largely critical of the Dallas Police Department, hopes to set a higher bar for the department in how it identifies incidents when officers fire their weapons. "They don't categorize officer-involved shooting appropriately," says Stephen Benav ... More >>

Would Texas' Stand Your Ground Law Protect The Dallas Officers Who Shot Unarmed Suspects?

Since August 10, Dallas police officers have shot six people, killing four of them. Most were armed and a threat to others. One, Andrew Scott Gaynier, was unarmed, though police say he lunged at the off-duty officer who shot him. The events surrounding the shooting of an unarmed teen in Ferguson, M ... More >>

Off-Duty Officer Fatally Shoots Suspect in Killing Near Northeast Dallas Walmart

An off-duty Dallas police officer shot and killed a man police said is a suspect in a fatal shooting in Northwest Dallas early Wednesday. Around 12:40 a.m., two men began to quarrel at the pumps of a gas station near Midpark Road and Central Expressway, police said. One of the men fired a shot, and ... More >>

Dallas Officer Shoots and Kills Man Who Kidnapped His Own Children

Monday morning in southern Dallas, Steven Douglas rammed his truck into a car, breaking out the driver's side window. It belonged to the mother of his children. With her three kids, she had been trying to run away from him. He'd visited her apartment that morning, and, when she managed to get her ki ... More >>

Dallas' Police Union Really Doesn't Want DA Craig Watkins to Investigate Police Shootings

Last week, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins announced the formation of a new Civil Rights Unit, a two-person team that will investigate shootings by officers independent of the police department. Chief David Brown supports the unit. "You can't have enough oversight when it comes to police-invo ... More >>

Tonight in Dallas, Craig Watkins Will Discuss His Plan to Investigate all Police Shootings

In the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins tonight will hold a 7 p.m. town hall meeting at St. Paul United Methodist Church, where he says he hopes to start a conversation about police shootings to avoid in Dallas what has happened in Missouri. We ... More >>

In These Suspicious Dallas Deaths, the Investigations Are Ongoing, and Ongoing, and ...

When questions arise about how investigators handled a suspicious death case, or when they appear to have possibly caused the death themselves, they usually don't comment about what happened because the investigation is ongoing and it will take a very long time to solve. It's a logical enough expl ... More >>

Unarmed Teen Shot by Dallas Officer Had Two Taser Marks, Two Gunshot Wounds, Autopsy Shows

Shortly after a Dallas Police Department officer shot an unarmed teen last summer, there was a fairly simple explanation. The officers "responded to a burglary in progress," police said. They found 19-year-old Gerardo Pinedo Jr. inside the house and ordered him to come outside and lie on the ground ... More >>

Duncanville Police Shooting Victim Didn't Receive Medical Help Afterward, Autopsy Says

In October, the Duncanville Police Department responded to what they vaguely described as a "major disturbance." After they arrived, a 28-year-old man named Clinton Peterson somehow ended up getting shot to death. The police department admitted this much in a press release published shortly after ... More >>

Garland's Colten Moore, 18, Murdered a 7-Eleven Clerk in Cold Blood, Police Say

Google "Colten Moore" and you'll find that there are two young North Texas men of that name currently making headlines. One, 24, from Krum , just scored an inspiring snowmobiling victory at the X Games, one year after brother Caleb was killed trying to do the same. The other, 18, from Garland, is ... More >>

Uptown Man Reports Burglary, Shoots At Responding Police, Dies

In at least a couple of recent cases, Dallas cops appear to have been a bit too quick to pull the trigger. In one instance, an officer opened fire on a mentally ill man standing in a Rylie cul-de-sac. In another, an officer shot a carjacking suspect as he sat with his hands up in the passenger seat ... More >>

Clint Peterson Was Killed by Police While Running Away

Why did a Duncanville police officer shoot Clint Peterson? Don't bother asking the cops.

An Arlington Head Shop Clerk Gunned Down a Shoplifter on Monday, Police Say

An Arlington head shop clerk is facing murder charges after allegedly gunning down a suspected shoplifter on Tuesday. Police arrived at Smoking Dragon Gifts in the 5900 block of South Cooper Street just before 11 a.m. Tuesday to find Jonathan Brian Lambert, 28, and another employee holding two othe ... More >>

Dallas Police Drop Aggravated Assault Charges Against the Mentally Ill Rylie Man They Shot

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 of ... More >>

Dallas Police Say They Know Who Murdered a Pregnant Woman at an Oak Cliff Drug House

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 ... More >>

A Far East Dallas Homeowner Was Killed by Police After Shooting a Burglar, Cops Say

On Thursday evening just before 8 p.m., three Dallas police officers opened fire and killed a man they say pointed a gun at them in a Far East Dallas alley. This came after police ordered the man to drop his weapon several times, according to witnesses. It was a clear case of self-defense, DPD said ... More >>

The Family of David Hartman, the First Man Shot to Death by Highland Park Police, is Suing for $1 Million

David Hartman's death at the hands of Highland Park police back in June was weird. For starters, there was the shooting itself. The 32-year-old had already been searched and was handcuffed in the back of the squad car when police say he managed to pull out a handgun and shoot out one of the rear wi ... More >>

Reginald Zackery, Alleged Blood and Recent Self-Shooting Victim, is Having a Terrible Week

Maybe you've had a bad week. Maybe work sucked. Maybe your car broke down or you were dumped by your significant other or your cat died. Maybe you experienced all of that. Even if you did, you had a better week than Reginald Keith Zackery Jr. Zackery's misery began last Friday afternoon at the Good ... More >>

Police Trying to Find Who Beat Bryan Bradford Unconscious at His Swiss Avenue Apartment

The Swiss Avenue Place Apartments, near the intersection with Peak Street, are several blocks and several social rungs away from the ritzy end of the East Dallas boulevard. The cars aren't as nice, the surrounding homes not as well kept. There's a lot more crime, too, mostly car break-ins, domestic ... More >>

Mother Can't File Complaint Against DPD for Her Son's Death Because She Doesn't Live in Dallas

Ever since 25-year-old Clinton Allen was shot and killed by Officer Clark Staller, Allen's family has been calling for action against the officer and the Dallas Police Department. Collette Flanagan, Allen's mother, filed an ethics complaint against police Chief David Brown claiming that DPD never in ... More >>

Jerry Waller, a 72-Year-Old Grandfather, Was Shot in His Driveway by Fort Worth Police

Early on Tuesday morning, Jerry Waller woke to a noise coming from outside the garage of his home on a quiet street near Woodhaven Country Club in East Fort Worth. It was about 1 a.m. when the 72-year-old stepped outside to investigate. He grabbed his .38-caliber handgun just to be safe. The exact ... More >>

Dallas PD Honors Its Fallen on Facebook with Reminders of the City's Dangerous Past

Yesterday, the Dallas Police Department has blanketed its Facebook page with a portrait and brief biography of every officer killed in the line of duty over the past 121 years. The procession of 80 mostly young faces is a somber reminder of how dangerous a job policing is. A handful of the names ar ... More >>

A Kaufman County Prosecutor Was Murdered as he Walked to Work This Morning

Just before 9 a.m., as a Kaufman County prosecutor got out of his car in a parking lot outside the county courthouse, he was ambushed by two gunmen who shot him five times. That's according to a report from Fox 4. The prosecutor's name has yet to be publicly released pending notification of family ... More >>

Over the Weekend, a Tense, Angry, Cabaret-Referencing Forum on Violence in South Dallas

The shooting death in late July of felon and suspected drug dealer James Harper by Officer Brian Rowden during a foot chase at a South Dallas drug house has re-opened some barely closed wounds, touching off a painful debate about crime, enforcement, and police presence in low-income black and Latino ... More >>

Colorado Shooting Shows Again How the NRA Plays us for Patsies

You're kidding me, right? We just sit here like patsies and let the gun nuts tell us we're not allowed to protect ourselves from the next James Holmes? We know there will be a next one, because we know there was a Jared Lee Loughner,  a George "Jo Jo" Pierre Hennard, a Mark David Chapman, a John W ... More >>

UT-Arlington Students March for Trayvon Martin, Demand Gunman's Arrest

Students, faculty and community members marched together today through the University of Texas at Arlington campus, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin's death and the arrest of his killer, 28-year-old George Zimmerman. Hundreds attended the rally organized by the UT-Arlington NAACP chapter, inclu ... More >>

Columbine, Hollywood, and the National Obsession That Never Ends

Thirteen years and a hundred school shootings later, why is Hollywood still obsessed with this one?

Eight People Shot During Rival Gang Tiff at a Rap Battle in North Dallas Night Club

​Not all open-mic rap competitions are as friendly as the ones down in Deep Ellum these days, apparently: Multiple guns were reportedly fired and eight different people were injured by gunfire late on Friday night during a "Rap-Off Contest" taking place at Rolls Royce Club in North Dallas, near th ... More >>

Don Hardge Fired His AK-47 Into a Crowd Of Teens, But He Swears He's No Killer

The family of a dead teenage girl might disagree, even if the justice system didn't.

Dallas PD Releases Photo of "Gun" Man Said He Was Carrying Before Officers Shot Him Sunday

Dallas Police Department​About an hour ago, Deputy Chief Craig Miller, commander of the Crimes Against Persons Division, held a press conference at Dallas PD HQ to discuss yesterday's police shooting of 32-year-old Tony Menchaca. At the press conference, Miller outlined the day's events and explai ... More >>

On Lower Greenville Early This Morning, One Dead and One Injured in Parking Lot Shooting

Coutesy Avi Adelman/Barking Dogs​At 2 this morning, Dallas Police officers were called to 1930 Greenville Avenue -- shots had been fired in a parking lot at Greenville and Alta Avenues, right across the street from the Cavern and Billiard Bar. Officers arrived and found two men had been shot -- on ... More >>

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

Early This Morning, A Man Was Shot to Death in the Char Bar Parking Lot on Lower Greenville

Avi AdelmanTaken in the Char Bar parking lot at around 3:45 this morning​According to various reports from the Dallas Police Department and the Lower Greenville Self-Appointed Civilian Police Department Comprised Mainly of Avi Adelman, a man was shot and killed after an altercation early this morn ... More >>

Lonesome and Irish

What About Bob?

Laugh openly at Robert Hawkins

"The Kinds of People Who Can Put a Bullet in the Back of My Head."

ESPN the Magazine's Shaun Assael this morning offers his take on the David Jacobs story -- because Assael thinks he has some insight into why Jacobs, who claimed he sold his steroids to NFL players, and his girlfriend, bodybuilder Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, were found shot to death in Jacobs' Plano h ... More >>

Steroids Dealer David Jacobs Found Dead in His Plano Home, Giving Birth to Conspiracy Theories

For those thinking there's something mighty, mighty suspicious about convicted steroids dealer David Jacobs being found dead in his Plano home today of apparent gunshot wounds, along with a 30-year-old bodybuilder named Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, you are not alone. Over on Grits for Breakfast, Scott ... More >>

As FAA Bans Pilots and Others From Taking Chantix, Further Proof the Drug Has "Safety Problems"

As long as there are stories about the dangers associated with the smoking-cessation drug Chantix, there will be references to Carter Albrecht, who was on the drug the night he was shot to death on September 3. Take, for instance, this story from the Los Angeles Times posted this afternoon, about th ... More >>

Super Bowl Trip Ends in Shooting for Two Dallas Firefighters

KPHO-TV The scene from this morning's shooting in Arizona involving two Dallas firefighters. Phoenix media outlets are reporting that two Dallas firefighters -- 28-year-old Charles Whittaker and 34-year-old Reggie Cueington -- were shot early this morning, as they walked from a bar in Peoria, Arizo ... More >>

Can I Get a Witness?

The District Attorney's Office gets the right guy for the wrong reason.

Reversing His Field

Dallas Cowboys training camp hasn't officially begun, and starting free safety Keith Davis is already drawing flags. But these aren't yellow for leaping offside but red for lying. The skepticism you had at initially hearing Davis' tale of being shot on Interstate 635 in the early morning of July 16 ... More >>

Rude Boy

The life and times of John Soldier

The Girl Who Played Dead

The untold story of the 1990 bathtub shooting

Open Season

Border authorities fear a return to the law of the Wild West as Texas homeowners take up guns against illegal Mexican immigrants

Blood Feud

Hatred and murder between elderly brothers rip apart a West Texas ranch family