The principal of Dallas’s newly opened Downtown Montessori school was shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide in her Richardson home, the Dallas Morning News said. Olga Korobovskaya, 58, was found dead Tuesday morning along with the suspect, Newman Wallace Lofland, 71, police said. Richardson police said Korobovskaya and Lofland had a previous relationship. Get …
Briana Johnson’s boyfriend, Victor Campbell Jr, has been charged with her murder.
A suspected serial killer accused of killing 14 elderly north Texas residents was indicted for three more deaths this week, and authorities say he has been linked to another seven deaths, the Dallas Morning News reported. Billy Chemirmir, 48, has been charged with 17 counts of capital murder and two counts of attempted capital murder …
The family of a Texas man who was murdered in May said they believed someone he met online lured him to the location where he was robbed and fatally shot. Police said Deonte Hicks, 27, was shot and killed in Houston as he stood outside his vehicle. Two suspects were reportedly spotted fleeing the scene …
Dallas police arrested a man over the weekend they were questioning about a stalking incident when he admitted he had killed another man who went on a date with the woman he was stalking, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported. Jorge Esparza, 22, told detectives he shot and killed Ricardo Medina-Madriz, 27, just before midnight …
A Dallas woman shot and killed her 9-year-old daughter and then herself on Monday after chasing her husband out of the house during an argument, the Dallas Morning News reported. Authorities identified the woman on Wednesday as 34-year-old Alexica Stevenson-Gates. Initially, she was inside the home with both her daughter and her 12-year-old son, but …
A grandmother and her boyfriend have been arrested in Texas for locking a 6-year-old boy in a shed with his hands tied behind his back, KTVT reported. Police found the boy in a shed behind the home at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday night, the station said. Police did not say what brought them to the …
Police in Dallas are looking for a man who shot a pregnant store employee as he unsuccessfully tried to rob a CVS near Southern Methodist University, NBC DFW reported. The woman, said to be about 8 months pregnant, was shot twice and rushed to Presbyterian Hospital, where doctors delivered her baby. Both were in critical …
A prosecution witness in the trial of ex-cop Amber Guyger for the killing of Botham Jean was shot dead in Dallas Friday evening, CBS DFW reported. Joshua Brown, 28, lived across the hall from Jean and testified about the night Guyger entered Jean’s apartment instead of hers and shot him dead. Brown testified that he …
Amber Guyger testified that Botham Jean was standing up when she opened fire—a claim experts have contradicted in previous testimony
The murder trial is underway for an off-duty Texas police officer who fatally shot her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment last year. Indicted late last year, ex-Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, 31, claimed she fatally shot Botham Jean, 26, in his apartment after mistaking his unit for hers. She reportedly told police that she …
Lawyers representing a former Texas police officer facing murder charges for September’s shooting death of her neighbor have requested a change of venue due to the media attention the case has received. The Dallas Morning News reported that Amber Guyger’s attorneys cited “media hysteria” as the reason why they want the high-profile trial moved out …
