Texas

A San Antonio police officer who was reinstated last year after he was fired for giving a homeless man a feces sandwich is trying to win his job back for a second time. Matthew Luckhurst, who is part of the SAPD’s bike patrol won his appeal for the 2016 feces sandwich incident last March after […]

The mother of Atatiana Jefferson, the woman who was shot and killed by a Fort Worth Police Officer in October 2019 has died. Medical personnel were called to Yolanda Carr‘s residence located on the 1200 block of East Allen Avenue in Fort Worth on Thursday. It’s the same residence where Jefferson was shot by a now-fired […]

Every year as high school seniors prepare to attend college, schools and other advisors tell students to prep for financial aid and tap into existing resources to help pay for college. Now a new state law is helping students no longer leave money on the table. When House Bill 3 was passed in regards to […]

Another layer of tragedy has been added to the tragic killing of Atatiana Jefferson., Jefferson’s father, Marquis has passed away from what is being reported as a heart attack. A spokesman confirmed the passing to the Dallas Morning News. Marquis Jefferson died Saturday at a Dallas area hospital. “[He] just couldn’t get back from what happened to […]

A Texas man sitting on death row has new eyes on his case, including that of superstars such as Meek Mill, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Dr. Phil and more. Rodney Reed has been sitting on death row for the 1996 rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Reed has continued to proclaim his innocence and with his execution date […]

A Dallas police officer shot his son on Saturday night, originally believing him to be an intruder. Dispatchers got a call around 6 p.m. from a man who had reported a shooting at his home. Turns out, the off-duty Dallas police officer mistook his adult son for an intruder and shot him. The Desoto Police […]

Amber Guyger is taking the initial steps to appeal her murder conviction in the death of Botham Jean. An attorney for Guyger filed an intent to appeal her first-degree murder conviction earlier this month as well as her 10-year prison sentence. The appeal comes two weeks after she was found guilty in the September 2018 […]

34-year-old Aaron York Dean is behind bars this evening, hours after he resigned as a member of the Fort Worth Police Department. He’s been charged with murder in the shooting of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her home on Saturday. Dean, who had been a member of the Fort Worth Police Department since April 2018 is currently listed as […]

UPDATE: The officer involved in the shooting of Atatiana Jefferson has resigned. 34-year-old Aaron Dean left the force on Monday. Interim Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus said in a press conference that he had intended to fire Dean who had been on the force for a little more than a year but Dean resigned before […]

Arrest warrants have been issued for three men suspected of killing Joshua Brown, a witness who tearfully testified last month in the trial of former police officer Amber Guyger. Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean as she entered his apartment, thinking it was hers. In his testimony, Brown, 28, who had met Jean on the same day he was […]

A witness who testified in Amber Guyger‘s murder trial last week was shot and killed Friday evening at an apartment complex near the Medical District in Dallas. Joshua Brown, 28, a neighbor of Botham Jean and Guyger at the South Side Flats apartments, was killed around 10:30 p.m. Brown lived across the hall from Jean and […]

An ex-Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of an unarmed black man in his apartment. Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder on Tuesday in the September 2018 killing of Botham Jean. Jean was sitting in his apartment eating ice cream when Guyger broke in, mistaking the apartment […]