Crime & Police

It’s almost summer in Dallas, which means a couple of things: unbearable heat is just around the corner and Cowboys star running back Ezekiel Elliott has gotten himself involved in a situation he had no business getting himself involved in. This time Elliott didn’t commit an unforced error at the…

Muhlaysia Booker, the Dallas transgender woman brutally attacked on video last month in South Dallas, was shot and killed Saturday, Dallas police confirmed Sunday afternoon. Police found Booker, 23, laying face down on Valley Glen Drive near Ferguson Road just before 7 a.m. Saturday. Booker wasn’t carrying ID, leading to…

After more than a year of investigation, the charges against suspected North Texas serial killer Billy Chemirmir are starting to come in. Already this week, a Dallas County grand jury has indicted Chemirmir for six murders, according to court documents. Multiple media outlets report than Chemirmir will soon be indictment…

Dallas Police Department officers searched Catholic Diocese of Dallas properties across the city Wednesday as part of a continuing investigation into alleged abuse by Dallas priests. According to DPD Maj. Max Geron, police searched Diocese headquarters in Oak Lawn, St. Cecilia Catholic Church in North Oak Cliff and a storage…

The last time Chris Mullins saw his girlfriend alive, she was leaving for work early on a Monday morning in late November 2018. Maria Ezquerro had recently returned home from visiting her parents in Mexico and spent the night with Mullins in Denton. Partially asleep, he walked her to the…

Nearly five months after his arrest, John Wetteland made his first court appearance on child sex abuse charges Monday. Though he didn’t enter a plea at the Denton County Courthouse, his attorney made it clear to reporters how he and his client plan to fight the accusations against the former…

Former Richardson Mayor Laura Jordan and her husband Mark Jordan will get a new trial, a federal judge announced Thursday, because of improper communication between a federal court officer and a juror during the couple’s original trial, which concluded in March. The juror, No. 11, sent a note to U.S…

A Tarrant County grand jury has indicted an Arlington Police Department officer in the shooting death of a 24-year-old man who tried to drive away from a traffic stop in September 2018. Arlington police Officer Julie Herlihy pulled O’Shea Terry over because he had expired temporary tags on his SUV…

On Wednesday, a Dallas County jury answered the only questioned that remained about a gruesome 2015 murder on White Rock Creek jogging trail. Thomas Johnson, a former football star at Texas A&M and Dallas’ Skyline High School, will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering Dave Stevens…

At least in terms of the public process, if not the legal one, the release of the audio recording of the 911 call in the Botham Jean killing finally takes us down to the fine point of what has been the public question from the beginning: If a white cop…

Immediately after shooting Botham Jean, former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger told a city 911 dispatcher that she’d made a horrible mistake. “I’m an off-duty officer. I thought I was in my apartment and I shot a guy thinking he was, thinking it was my apartment,” Guyger said. “I…

One of DFW’s longest running true-crime soap operas took another turn Friday as Tarrant County authorities arrested Tonya Couch, the mother of “affluenza” drunk driver Ethan Couch, for yet another alleged bail violation. Couch is accused of failing a urinalysis, violating the portion of her bail agreement that requires that…

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot would like would-be thieves to know that they can’t steal anything they like without fear of prosecution. Last week, Creuzot’s office announced a series of sweeping reforms, including declining to prosecute most low-level marijuana offenses, cases in which someone is found with trace amounts…

The Dallas Police Department Family Violence Unit is investigated a complaint made against community activist Dominique Alexander, DPD confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Alexander’s accuser called Dallas activist and pastor Jeff Hood after the alleged assault. The pair then went to the hospital, before filing a report at the Northwest Dallas Police…

Campus police are investigating a reported sexual assault at a fraternity house at the University of Texas at Arlington. A female student told Arlington police that she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance early Sunday, said Joe Carpenter, a university spokesman. Because the assault occurred on campus, Arlington police turned…

In 1998 when John Creuzot, now the new Dallas County district attorney, was a Dallas County felony district court judge, he established an experimental program called the Dallas Initiative for Expedited Recovery and Treatment or DIVERT. It sent first-time drug offenders into intensively monitored recovery programs rather than to jail…

Tuesday afternoon, all 144 of state Rep. Victoria Neave’s colleagues available to vote on the Texas House floor agreed with the two-term Dallas Democrat: It’s time, the state’s lower chamber unanimously voted, to end Texas’ rape kit backlog. “This bill is for all the women who have waited for years…

Dallas police expect to make more arrests in the beating of a transgender woman in the parking lot of an apartment complex in east Oak Cliff. Detectives are reviewing video of the beating to determine how many people were involved, interviewing suspects and working to identify others, said police Lt…

Dallas police have arrested a man in connection with the beating of a transgender woman in the parking lot of an east Oak Cliff apartment complex. Police say Edward Thomas, 29, was involved in a minor traffic accident with Muhlaysia Booker between 5 and 6 p.m. Friday in the parking…

The Senate Higher Education Committee approved a bill Wednesday that updates the state’s policy for how colleges and universities are required to handle campus sexual violence. Senate Bill 585, introduced by Sen. Kirk Watson, an Austin Democrat, would require all public and private colleges and universities in the state to…

The former head of a now-defunct school bus agency was sentenced Tuesday to six months of home confinement and three years of probation after pleading guilty to a single count of tax evasion. Larry Duncan, former board president of Dallas County Schools, admitted to not paying taxes on nearly a…