The son of a Texas couple who was found fatally shot in their home on Thursday was arrested for allegedly stealing his parents’ car from the scene. According to KXAS, Samuel Scarlett, 28, is considered a person of interest in the murders of his father and mother, Mike and Kay Scarlett, 66 and 68, at …
A fired San Antonio police officer has been charged with assault after he opened fire on a teenager eating a burger inside his car in a McDonald’s parking lot. Eric Cantu, 17, is hospitalized unconscious and on life support after he was shot multiple times, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said, according to KSAT. …
A man suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body, with her limbs amputated, in Louisiana three years ago has been arrested. US Marshals tracked down Carl Tates, 61, in Madison County, Mississippi, on September 7, an affidavit filed in the case said. He’s being held without bond on a fugitive warrant from Texas, …
A Texas man couldn’t take losing on the basketball court earlier this week, so he drove his family home and returned to the court, where he allegedly shot to death the woman who beat him. Asia Womack, said by her family to be a basketball whiz who played on her high school team, was playing …
A suspected serial killer accused of killed 22 elderly women and stealing jewelry and other valuables was found guilty Friday of one of those murders by a Dallas County jury. It was the second time Billy Chemirmir, 49, was tried for the death of 87-year-old Mary Brooks. The first jury deadlocked last November, resulting in …
An 18-year-old Texas man has been charged with attempted murder after he broke into the newborn nursery at Odessa Regional Medical Center and tried to strangle two infants. Marcus McCowan Jr. was at the hospital on Monday with his girlfriend, who had gone into labor, according to KMID. An arrest affidavit says that nurses called …
A man who allegedly abducted and killed his ex-girlfriend in Texas on Monday was arrested on Wednesday in Mexico. KPRC reported that Daniel Chacon, 30, fled to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, but he eventually surrendered at the Laredo Port of Entry after negotiating with Pasadena police and federal agencies. Chacon is believed to have forced …
A manhunt is on in Texas for the ex-boyfriend of a woman found shot to death in her abandoned SUV Monday afternoon. Neither Houston Police, where the body was found, nor Pasadena Police, where the incident began, have named the victim or the suspect, who was identified to investigators in Pasadena, KHOU reported. Witnesses reported …
A Texas man and his wife have been charged with murder in the deaths of his mother and stepfather. Clayton Waters was reported missing on September 16 when he failed to show up for work, according to KLTV. The subsequent investigation determined that his wife, Karen Waters, was also missing. The Waterses’ remains were found …
A suspected serial killer returns to court on Monday in Texas to face a jury for the second time in the 2018 murder of 88-year-old Mary Brooks. The jury deadlocked last November at the first trial, but Billy Chemirmir, 49, has already been convicted of capital murder in the death of another elderly woman, 81-year-old …
A small Texas city straddling two counties was rocked Thursday morning by gunfire that left five people dead and the suspect hospitalized after he was shot by police. McGregor police asked the Texas Rangers to conduct the investigation of the incident that ended in a shootout when police arrived on the scene. Authorities have not …
A Texas father has been charged with abandoning or endangering a child after he left a baby girl in shed belonging to a Polk County family. John and Katharine McClain were awakened at about 3 a.m. Saturday morning by the sound of a neighbor’s truck driving away. When they checked their security camera, they saw …
