In the aftermath of the death of Mesquite 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, Balch Springs police and the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office have acted quickly. Within a week of the honor student’s and football player’s death, police arrested Balch Springs Police Department Officer Roy Oliver for shooting Edwards in the head with…
Roy Oliver, a six-year veteran Balch Springs police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old Mesquite high school freshman Jordan Edwards on Saturday, has been charged with murder, according to news reports. The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department issued an arrest warrant for Oliver late Friday after a judge signed a murder warrant…
The rash of murder-suicides that swept DFW started last Monday morning in a Lake Highlands office tower near the High Five. Matthew Kempf, 60, stormed into the office building anger that he lost his job at Dignity Team Health. According to police, he shot former coworker Lana Canada, 48. Canada’s husband…
This post will be updated as more information is available. North Lake Community College’s Irving Campus is locked down due to an active shooter, Irving Police say. Irving Police Public Information Officer James McLellan confirmed during an improptu press conference that an unknown suspect began shooting on campus at about…
Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber announced Tuesday night that Roy Oliver, six-year veteran Balch Springs police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old Mesquite high school freshman Jordan Edwards as Edwards, his two brothers and one friend drove away from a party Saturday night, has been fired. After a 911…
Dallas police provided new details Tuesday afternoon about Derick Brown’s Monday shooting rampage in Old East Dallas that injured a Dallas paramedic, Brown’s neighbor and left the gunman and another man dead. Dallas Assistant Police Chief Randy Blankenbaker says Brown first shot and killed his 67-year-old roommate, Arthur Riggings. After…
The suspect in Monday’s shooting of a Dallas Fire Department paramedic led a complicated life before police using a robot found his corpse in an Old East Dallas home. Derick Lamont Brown, 36, died an alleged murderer with a lengthy Dallas County criminal file, but he was also a controversial…
In fields other than journalism, people use the term, “Monday-morning quarterbacking,” as if it’s a bad thing. In our business it’s bread and butter. So I don’t blame any of my colleagues for second-guessing the performances of the two opposing legal teams in the recently concluded federal corruption trial of…
Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber said Monday afternoon that the car in which Mesquite High School freshman Jordan Edwards was shot Saturday night was not, as Haber said Sunday, backing up toward officers responding to a party in Balch Springs. Instead, Haber said, a police officer shot and killed…
This is a developing story. We’ll update as more information is available. Dallas police confirmed just after noon Monday that an unknown gunman shot a Dallas paramedic near I-30 and Dolphin Road in Old East Dallas. According to the city, the paramedic is currently in surgery at Baylor Hospital in…
Late Wednesday afternoon, Dallas police say, a fight broke out at the Whispering Hollow apartment complex in the Red Bird area of southern Dallas. During the fight, someone shot 17-year-old Mark Burnough. He died in the hospital Wednesday evening. On Thursday, Dallas Police released an edited video from the scene: In…
Just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, a black Dodge Durango approached the front entrance of the Dallas Police Southwest Patrol Division at 4230 West Illinois Avenue. Guards outside the building stopped the driver, who “asked questions and made statements that led the officers to take the suspect into custody for a mental health…
The city of Dallas ongoing public safety is at risk after missing hiring targets and increasing officer attrition, interim Dallas Police Chief David Pughes said Monday. According to the chief, Dallas could dip below 3,000 police officers this summer, a staffing level Pughes identifies as a tipping point for the…
Note: This article will be updated as more information is available. The Dallas police and fire departments evacuated an office building at 8330 LBJ Freeway Monday morning following reports of multiple gun shots in the building. Just before 1 p.m., Dallas police confirmed that the building is safe. One police…
Monday morning marks the beginning of the fourth day of jury deliberations in the federal corruption case against Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his executive assistant, Dapheny Fain. Price is accused of accepting about $1 million in cash and other benefits in exchange for confidential information and influence,…
A Dallas County jury found former Dallas Police Department officer Bryan Burgess not guilty Friday afternoon of criminally negligent homicide in death of Fred Bradford Jr. In 2013 Burgess hit and killed Bradford, who was riding on a bicycle, with his police car after a brief chase in South Dallas…
Muffled by a silencer, the gunshots from the killer’s 9mm made no more noise than a six-pack opening as he fired into a parked Range Rover. Wearing a hoodie, his face covered by a bandanna, the drug cartel hit man tattooed the front passenger side window with at least seven…
The saga that ended with Steric Paul Mitchell getting 35 years of federal prison time began nearly four years ago with a 911 call. The woman on the line, as the Observer’s Eric Nicholson reported at the time, was frantic. She told the dispatcher she’d been kidnapped the day before. She…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price could see some of the charges against him dismissed even if a federal jury finds him guilty. During a hearing Monday morning, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn repeatedly questioned the validity of some of the government’s charges against Price. By late Monday afternoon, she…
The sign on the door of Little World, a convenience store on the 4600 block of Malcolm X Boulevard, reads “no Guns.” It’s a plea from the owner to the neighborhood, which has been wracked with violence. The store was the backdrop of a shooting at 1am on Friday night. Dallas…
In a surprising move late Thursday afternoon, the defense for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his executive assistant Dapheny Fain rested their case after calling only two witnesses. Price is accused of taking nearly $1 million in bribes and tax evasion. Fain is charged with lying to FBI…
Did you ever get badly bawled out by somebody, and the person stalked out of the room and then stalked back in and started bawling you out again? That means the person is mad at you. That’s what happened to federal prosecutors Tuesday in the corruption trial of Dallas County…
