A man, woman, and a “small child” were found shot to death on their front porch in an apparent double murder-suicide in rural Texas on Thursday after the man reportedly made distressing phone calls to family members earlier in the day. According to KTRK, family members went to check on the family when they hadn’t …
A 12-year-old Texas boy came home from school on Friday to an empty apartment, with his family gone. According to KWKT, Copperas Cove police were called to a neighbor’s home, where the boy had gone after finding his mother, Erica Renee Sanders, and her boyfriend, Keven Dwayne Adams, gone. He told the officer that Sanders …
A Texas man has been arrested and charged with murdering his high school teacher wife late last week. Brandon Ashley was arrested on Sunday in Grimes County, about two and a half hours from the couple’s home in Alvarado, where 33-year-old Chelsea Spillers’ body was found on Saturday, KXAS reported. Alvarado Police Assistant Chief Ben …
A crazed Texan is accused of fatally shooting three people at a home in Mabank on Friday before crashing his minivan into a Buc-ee’s in Ennis, about 35 miles away, and shooting himself. Two more victims were shot and hospitalized, and a pedestrian was pinned against a sales display at the Buc-ee’s when Christopher Kyle …
Two Texas sisters were arrested last week and charged with abusing a 12-year-old child for months. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said it launched an investigation on September 28 after the child reported ongoing physical and sexual abuse. She was taken to a hospital, where staff confirmed injuries “consistent with abuse and malnutrition.” Brenda Garcia, …
Three people were shot and killed in two separate shootings in the Houston area on Wednesday, all perpetrated by the same gunman who later killed himself. In the first incident, a 47-year-old woman was found just before 1 p.m. inside her vehicle in Sugar Land with multiple gunshots. She was taken to a hospital, where …
A Texas woman was convicted this week of killing her diabetic husband in 2023 through neglect as he suffered from an insulin overdose. A jury found Sarah Jean Hartsfield, 50, was found guilty of murder on Wednesday, KFDM reported. Hartsfield was arrested after staff at Houston Methodist Hospital noted suspicious circumstances surrounding Joseph Hartsfield’s death …
A Texas man who assaulted his ex-girlfriend twice in one day has been released from jail on a $58,500 bond. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said a woman called them at about 4 a.m. on Friday and said she’d been assaulted by her ex-boyfriend, 32-year-old John Anthony Etienne. He fled the scene before deputies …
A Texas minister has been charged with distributing child pornography after an investigation found nude photos of girls on his computer. Jon Sheptock, 49, was the worship minister at First Montgomery Baptist Church but has since been removed “from all responsibilities at the church,” KTRK reported, quoting from a church statement. Sheptock was taken into …
A Texas man has been arrested and charged with the stabbing death of his wife — less than a week after he was released on bail after threatening another family member and was given a ride back to the house by a police officer. Mary Spears, 53, was f0und stabbed to death in the backyard …
UPDATE According to WFAA, the shooter in Wednesday’s shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas has been identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn. Initial Coverage A shooter killed one detainee and wounded two others Wednesday morning at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas. Early reports said that two detainees …
A Texas man was sentenced to death this week for the brutal murder of a young mother found buried in a crawl space beneath his house days after she disappeared. Valerian “Will” O’Steen, 28, was convicted of the murder of 26-year-old Marissa Grimes in February 2022 at the end of a lengthy trial in Tarrant …
