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 …
Prosecutors said an ex-Texas police officer wasn’t tired when she shot her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment last year—and the sexually-explicit text messages she sent to her partner prove it. ABC News reported that the texts were presented at the conclusion of Amber Guyger’s former partner’s testimony on Monday. Prosecutors said Guyger, 31, and …
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 …
Earnest Christopher Grant, the El Paso Walmart shooting victim who claimed he was wounded in the back as he threw soda bottles at the shooter to distract him, has defended his story after police claimed surveillance footage contradicted his story. In a statement issued to Crime Online, Rosana Narvaez, the lawyer who’s representing Grant, 50, …
A Texas girl died on Monday, days after she was reportedly infected with a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a river in her backyard. A relative told KBMT that they believe Lily Mae Avant, 10, contracted the deadly amoeba during Labor Day weekend while swimming in the Brazos River, which is located behind her Whitney …
A man in Texas was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for beating a 12-year-old girl last year as she walked to her bus stop. A Tarrant County jury found Terry Wayne King II, 36, guilty of assault causing bodily injury to a child and attempted aggravated kidnapping for the near-fatal April 2018 attack. …
A police officer in Texas was arrested on Sunday after a 16-year-old family member reportedly accused him of sexually assaulting her for years. Austin Police Department Lieutenant Dustin Paul Lee—a 21-year veteran who leads the department’s downtown area command and crisis intervention team—was charged on Tuesday with first-degree felony sexual assault of a child. Citing …
An armed man allegedly attempted to rush the door of a Texas Popeyes on Monday night after an employee said they were sold out of their highly sought-after chicken sandwiches. The incident reportedly occurred at a Popeyes in Houston at around 9 p.m. Employees and police told KTRK that a group consisting of two women, …
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A Texas man who owns a horse therapy farm for children with learning disabilities was arrested on Wednesday amid accusations that he sexually abused a 9-year-old girl. The city of El Paso announced in a statement that Sensory Ranch owner Homero Baeza-Licon, 65, was arrested at the ranch and charged with aggravated sexual assault. The …
A Texas man who was convicted of drowning his girlfriend’s 3-year-old nephew in a pond years earlier learned his fate in court on Friday. Bobby Woods Jr., 21, was sentenced life in prison without parole for the capital murder of Mason Cuttler, who he left to die in a pond near the family’s Lufkin home …
A man in Texas turned himself in on Thursday, a day after he allegedly shot into the wrong apartment and killed a 9-year-old girl. Tyrese Simmons, 19, is charged with the capital murder of Brandoniya Bennett, who KTVT reported was sitting on a couch in her Dallas apartment when she was shot in the head. …
