Selwyn Crawford of The Dallas Morning News has a story today about that triple homicide in Arlington over the weekend. Police say two women were killed by the estranged husband of one of them, leaving eight children without mothers.
The story is behind the paper's paywall, but in short, the pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, which the victims attended, says that the church is seeking help for the children, who range in age from 1 to 12. Seven of the children were in the apartment in the 3500 block of Wakefield Circle when the shooting occurred.
The husband, Dalton James Bennett Jr., was arrested at his mother's home nearby after the 1:30 a.m. shooting. Bennett's estranged wife, Sheryl Bennett, 31, was shot in the neck and right shoulder, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.
Her sister-in-law, Tana Todd, 25, was also killed, as was a male friend, Crawford reports. Sheryl Bennett's brother, Todd's husband, was critically wounded but survived.
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where are the children's dads?
Posted by: Brother | June 23, 2011 at 10:53 AM
Please read more carefully. One of the dads is the shooter. The other dad was critically injured in the shooting.
Posted by: Anne Principle | June 25, 2011 at 07:05 AM
one is dead and the other is going to jail for murder!
Posted by: RS | June 25, 2011 at 05:21 PM
One dad is in jail for the shooting, and the other one was shot and is likely still in the hospital.
Posted by: Denny | June 25, 2011 at 07:30 PM
Of the children's dads one is in the hospital and the other in jail for shooting everyone.
Posted by: Billy Davis | June 26, 2011 at 07:57 PM
Shame on the S-T for linking a story about an appeal for help to a paywall site. You have your own stories on this that could have been linked to, but you buried them after a day, & then show this on your online front page, which is turning people off & not helping.
Posted by: RSJ | June 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM
you don't know how things work and for your info we had to wait a whole week before we could bury our loved ones. and the children are the ones that we are asking to get the help there is a trust set up for them. so don't try to say that we only posted on a paywall site just to get money .I don't know who posted the story but when you have to be in our shoes hope you remember posting this bull. i am tana todd's biological aunt her mother is my sister
Posted by: Dawn Paul | June 29, 2011 at 10:06 AM
Dawn, I am so sorry. James was my cousin
Posted by: sammy | February 26, 2013 at 05:42 AM