Crime & Police

We are easy talking about shootings according to the law. We all jump in. The one thing nobody ever seems to talk about is shooting according to the heart and soul.

Dallas police late Saturday said Amber Guyger is the officer who shot Botham Shem Jean. DPD’s announcement came after an attorney representing Jean’s family named Guyger, 30, as the off-duty cop who shot and killed Jean Thursday night. Lee Merritt posted Guyger’s name in a tweet Saturday afternoon.

After initially seeking a manslaughter warrant for the off-duty Dallas Police Department officer who shot and killed Botham Shem Jean after she entered Jean’s apartment, believing it was her own, DPD backed off, Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall said early Saturday afternoon. “We were in the process of obtaining…

Heavy gray storm clouds lingered over downtown Dallas on Friday night as Alyssa Kinsey crossed South Lamar with a bouquet of flowers in hand. Her eyes welling up with tears, she stopped in front of a makeshift memorial in front of Dallas Police headquarters. She paused, tears now streaming down…

An unnamed Dallas police officer entered the wrong apartment on her way home after a 12-hour shift. Presumably under the assumption he was an intruder, the officer fired two shots that killed St. Lucian native, Botham Shem Jean on Thursday Sep. 6.

There was one sure way to know you were near Botham Shem Jean, the man shot and killed by a Dallas police officer Thursday night after she entered his apartment believing it was her own, his friends say. Whether he’d spotted someone he knew or taken the stage to lead…

A Dallas Police Department officer shot and killed a 26-year-old man late Thursday after she entered his apartment in the Cedars believing it was her own, DPD said early Friday morning. According to DPD Media Relations Sergeant Warren Mitchell, the officer, who has yet to be identified, had just returned…

A Dallas County jury sentenced Roy Oliver to 15 years in prison late Wednesday night. The ex-Balch Springs police officer faced as few as five years, and as many as 99, after being convicted of murdering Mesquite teenager Jordan Edwards in April 2017. The jury also handed Oliver a $10,000…

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…

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…

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…