A Texas woman who allegedly suffocated her 8-year-old son Sunday reportedly said demons told her to kill him as a sacrifice. KXAS reported that Irving police responded to an unconscious person call arrested Tisha Sanchez, 30, after finding Joevani De La Pena dead at their home. Relatives reportedly told officers that Sanchez had suffocated De …
The recent deaths of two young children in Texas were attributed to hot cars after they were reportedly found unresponsive in scorching vehicles. KTVT reported that Kaysen Neyland, 4, was pronounced dead at a hospital Thursday after his family discovered him a hot car in Providence Village. The Dallas County Medical Examiner is scheduled to …
Texas police announced last week that they charged a man with the murder of a transgender woman who was filmed in April being attacked in an unrelated incident, which was being treated as a possible hate crime. Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 33, who is currently jailed for two unrelated slayings of a man and woman (who …
Authorities in Texas say a nurse working at Northeast Methodist Hospital in the San Antonio area stole narcotics to feed his own drug habit, replacing the important medications with lidocaine, an anesthetic. According to Fox News, 29-year-old Kyle Evans is accused of injecting himself with hydromorphone stolen from at least five vials of the medication. …
Authorities in Texas are looking for a male suspect who they said tried to force himself into a woman’s apartment and demanded money before shooting her multiple times and fleeing the scene. KTRK reported that the unnamed victim was with her two kids Monday night when she was wounded at her Harris County home. The …
A police officer in Texas reportedly bought groceries for a child alone in a parking lot after learning that he and his family were having financial troubles. According to a Facebook post by the Austin Police Department, officer James Riley was working in central west Austin on June 3 when a citizen alerted him to …
Country music star Granger Smith revealed Thursday that he and his family are mourning the sudden loss of his 3-year-old son. Smith took to Instagram to announce that his youngest son, River, died in a “tragic accident.” Since then, the singer’s rep. told Just Jared that the toddler drowned at home. “Amber and I made …
Authorities in Texas have made an arrest in connection with Tuesday night’s fatal drive-by shooting of a teen boy who was reportedly struck and killed by a stray bullet while outside of a gas station. The Dallas Morning News reports that Datrail Deon Clayton, 21, is facing murder charges for allegedly shooting Malik Tyler, 13, …
Authorities in Texas say a man has been arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his adult son following a consistently acrimonious relationship. According to the New York Post, 68-year-old Sherman Shirley Fricks is accused of shooting his son, 27-year-old Sherman Palmer Fricks, multiple times with a .380 caliber handgun during an altercation at the suspect’s …
Authorities in Texas have contacted the FBI after a second black transgender woman was found murdered in Dallas within the past two weeks, with another transgender woman killed in October. The Dallas Morning News reported that the body pulled from White Rock Lake on Sunday was identified as Chynal Lindsey, 26. Dallas police confirmed Monday …
Authorities in Texas say a woman has been arrested for driving a school bus while intoxicated while children were on board. According to Fox News, 55-year-old Linda Sue Godejohn allegedly attracted the attention of witnesses as she drove in Spring on Thursday afternoon, weaving and striking a divider. One witness recalled that “it wasn’t just …
Authorities in Texas say a woman has been arrested on suspicion of burning her young stepdaughter in an incident earlier this month. According to the New York Post, 20-year-old Dalia Jimenez was arrested after police responded to a Grand Prairie residence on May 13 in response to the report of a burned child at the …
