Texas authorities arrested a 30-year-old man who allegedly shot his girlfriend to death and absconded with their two young daughters. Amarillo police issued an AMBER Alert for the two girls and Mario Rodriguez Saturday night, KVII reported. Rodriguez reportedly got into an argument with Marisela Mendoza, 23, in the parking lot of a Texas Roadhouse …
A Florida man was arrested this week and charged with the murder of a Dallas lawyer who was beaten and then burned alive in 2016. Steven Aubrey had been on law enforcement’s radar from almost the beginning in the death of attorney Ira Tobolowsky. Investigators believe Aubrey was irate because Tobolowsky was representing his mother …
A 16-year-old girl was shot to death in the early hours of Friday morning, and her mother’s boyfriend has been charged with the crime. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said deputies were dispatched to the scene when a young woman called 911 to report that Van Brisbon was holding her 16-year-old sister captive at gunpoint. …
A Texas man has been charged in the deaths of his wife and stepson after he called Austin Police to say he’d shot them and “they are both dead.” Officers rushed to the scene and found Rudy Limon-Lirra, 14, dead, while medical personnel took his mother, 39-year-old Christina Limon, to a hospital, where she died …
A 23-year-old Dallas-area woman has been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of her child’s paternal grandmother outside a Starbucks. Richardson Police said that Kentoria Nicole Edwards, 52, had full custody of the child and had agreed that the mother, Tranisa Octavin Trana Watts, could see the child at the coffee shop on …
A suspected murdering fleeing police in Texas led Alabama police on a chase before apparently killing himself and crashing. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said that a witness saw a dark-colored Dodge Challenger pull up in front of an apartment building. The driver reportedly pulled a man out of the car and then sped off, …
A Texas district attorney is dropping murder charges filed against a woman for an alleged “self-induced abortion.” Lizelle Herrera, 26, was charged on Thursday by the Starr County Sheriff’s Department and released Saturday on a $500,000 bond, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Law enforcement officials didn’t say what law allowed them to charge Herrera, and legal …
Update 7:30 p.m: Lizelle Herrera was released from jail on Saturday after a local bondsman posted her $500,000 bond, the Starr County Sheriff’s Office said. She is due in court on Wednesday for arraignment, MyRGV.com reported. Original story: A 26-year-old Texas woman has been charged with murder for allegedly causing “the death of an individual …
A suspected serial killer appeared in a Texas court on Wednesday as his trial approaches after more than 10 years behind bars. Steven Alexander Hobbs, 51, stands accused of killing Sarah Sanford and Patricia Pyatt and is a suspect in a third murder. He’s also charged with two rapes, one kidnapping, and two aggravated assaults …
Police in Texas have arrested a man they say shot a Montgomery County woman to death last month. Holly Vines’s ex-husband and their 8- and 12-year-old sons found her body in her garage on March 16, when the ex arrived to drop off the children. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday that it …
A Texas man has been charged with injury to a child after a 7-year-old was taken to a Denton hospital with “suspicious and extensive injuries.” The child was pronounced dead at the hospital, Denton Police said. Todd Lofton Shaw, the 52-year-old boyfriend of the child’s mother, was arrested. Denton police and emergency personnel were called …
The mother who said her 3-year-old son had been shot to death in a road rage incident earlier this week has been arrested on a child endangerment charge. Lacravivonne Washington, 26, told police on Monday that she’d been involved in an incident as she left a donut shop with her three children — ages 2, …
