Police in Fort Worth, Texas, have asked for help finding an 11-year-old girl missing since Tuesday night. Keyannie Banks was last seen about 9:30 p.m. in the southwest portion of the city, police said. She is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall and about 90 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Keyannie was …
A former Fort Worth police officer was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in prison after he was convicted last week of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in 2019. Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew in her bedroom at the back of the house when she heard noises outside …
A Texas jury deliberated for 13 hours before finding former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean guilty of manslaughter on Thursday in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in October 2019. Dean shot and killed Jefferson, 28, with a single shot through her bedroom window on October 12 after a neighbor asked for a welfare …
A 26-year-old Texas woman reported missing last week was found dead this week beneath a home in Fort Worth. Marissa Grimes’s parents reported her missing from Arlington on February 16, saying they hadn’t seen her since February 12, according to KDFW. Police have named 24-year-old Valerian Osteen, who was previously released on bond in a …
Fort Worth firefighters responded to a dumpster fire in the western part of the city early Wednesday morning, and when they’d extinguished the blaze, they found three dismembered bodies. One of the bodies was that of a child, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported. The others were a young woman or a teenage girl and …
Fort Worth police are investigating after a 4-year-old girl was mauled to death by a family dog. Police were called to the scene just after 5 p.m. on Friday, Fox 4 said, and the little girl — identified as Elayah Brown — was taken to Cook Children’s, where she was pronounced dead. “Anytime there is …
A former Texas teacher was sentenced Friday to more than 10 years in prison for stalking a 16-year-old student and possessing child pornography, the Dallas Morning News reports. Court documents say that Ricky Lynn Badley, 45, began sending the teen girl text messages in 2019, referring to her as a “little girl” and his “new …
A Fort Worth mother told a 911 dispatcher that she was “advised” to slit her 4-year-old daughter’s throat after first reporting that the little girl was missing. Krystal Lewandowski, 34, made the phone call at about 11:30 a.m. Monday, saying she’d last seen the girl in the backyard, NBC DFW reports. As the operator asked …
A Texas woman who was fatally shot by an officer in her bedroom early Saturday was reportedly playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew moments before her shooting death. KTVT reported that Fort Worth police received a call requesting a wellness check at Atatiana Jefferson’s home shortly before 2:30 a.m. Saturday from a neighbor who …
A Texas police officer has been placed on administrative leave after he shot and killed a black woman through an open window in her Fort Worth bedroom early Saturday morning, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the dead woman as Atatiana Jefferson, 28. Police did not identify the officer …
New details have emerged since news broke that a missing 8-year-old Texas girl had been found alive in a hotel room with the stranger accused of kidnapping her. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Salem Sabatka was reportedly walking with her mother in a Fort Worth neighborhood on Saturday when she was abducted by a man who …
A middle school teacher in Texas is facing six year behind bars in addition to a 10-year probated sentence after she pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual conduct with one of her students. According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, 28-year-old Katherine Ruth Harper will be required to register as a sex offender for the …
