Crime Time

One woman dead in Fort Worth shooting

Police are investigating a shooting early today that left one woman dead, a man wounded and another woman treated for assault.

Officers were called to the 3800 block of North Terry Street about 5:30 a.m., where they found the three victims.

No arrests have been made, but police are still investigating.

Terry Evens has the first report and you can read it here.

— Bill Miller

Your Blotter: Sex trafficking in FW; shooings in Arlington, Haltom City

There has been a lot of crime these past few days. No news there, right? But if you believe the saying "same day, different (names)" see the headlines on the Crime and Safety Page of Star-Telegram.com.

Tarrant County couple face federal charge of sex-trafficking of a child

Man shot at Haltom City residence, police say

Gunman sought after man shot in stomach in Arlington

Compiled from the works of Domingo Ramirez Jr.

-- Bill Miller

 

 

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Woman vomits near car, driver shoots her friend, Saginaw police say

This case has a lot of people dumbfounded.

Dr. Deidra Blackmon, a veterinarian, after an evening out with friends Saturday night, stopped at convenience store where one of her friends became ill in the parking lot.

The friend vomited, and the mess got near a car belonging to Jeffery Hansana of Haltom City (below).

Words were exchanged.

Police say that after Hansana's and Blackmon's cars got down the road in Saginaw, there was gunfire.

Blackmon, a vet in Grapevine, was pronounced dead a short time later at the hospital.

Domingo Ramirez Jr. has been trying to piece together this bizarre story. Read his report here.

-- Bill Miller

Businessman with shotgun peppers two suspected burglars in Grand Prairie

On Wednesday, we reported that a man was shot in the left leg as he ran from a would-be carjacker at a Grand Prairie apartment complex.

Gunfire sounded again Thursday in Grand Prairie when a business owner found two men outside his building.

He told police the two men were breaking into his vehicle, so he opened fire with a shotgun, sending both to the hospital.

The incident was reported 6:33 a.m. Thursday in the 2300 block of Fort Worth Street on the city’s northwest side. The area is southwest of the intersection of Interstate 30 and the President George Bush Turnpike.

"The first officers to arrive found two subjects that had gunshot wounds near a burglarized vehicle," said Detective Lyle Gensler, police spokesman, in a news release. "Those two suspects were immediately transported to Dallas Methodist Hospital with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries.

Gensler said the business owner said he had heard noises outside; he grabbed a shotgun and went to investigate.

"(He) walked outside to discover that his vehicle was being broken into," Gensler said.

That’s when he opened fire.

"The shooting, as well as the burglary, are currently still under investigation," Gensler said.

-- Bill Miller

 

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Man shot in leg during fight in east Fort Worth, police say

A man was shot in the leg late Tuesday in east Fort Worth, police said.

Police were called to the scene of a fight around 10 p.m. in the 3400 block of Avenue L. The area is about five blocks southeast of Texas Wesleyan University.

However, the man who was shot apparently made his way to 3200 block of Avenue J, about four blocks southeast of where the fight was reported, according to police records.

That’s where he called for an ambulance, said Capt. Kevin Rodricks, police spokesman.

The man was taken by MedStar to a Fort Worth hospital.

A gunshot wound to the leg is considered "critical," Rodricks said, but this man’s wound did not appear to be life threatening.

Rodricks, who was contacted at about 11:10 p.m. at the Avenue L location, said officers were trying to figure out what lead up to the shooting.

"We surmise this is where the subject got shot," Rodricks said, "but I don’t know what started it. Right now we have (patrol) units spanning out over a half-mile radius, digging into leads."

No other information was available late Tuesday.

-- Bill Miller

 

Police say cellphone photos may show Navy sniper before death

A cellphone seized from the home of an Iraq War veteran accused of killing a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend may contain pictures of him with the victims before their deaths at a Texas shooting range, according to police documents released Thursday.

The Associated Press reported tha the phone, 9 mm ammo and drug paraphernalia were seized from Eddie Ray Routh's home after he was arrested and allegedly confessed to shooting American Sniper co-author Chris Kyle and his friend, Chad Littlefield, Saturday, near Glen Rose.

Police believe Routh used the phone to call his sister before driving Kyle's truck to her house.

Routh told his sister and brother-in-law that the men "were out shooting target practice and he couldn't trust them so he killed them before they could kill him," according to a police search warrant affidavit.

Read the entire AP report here.

Sister: Routh said he killed former SEAL, friend 'before they could kill him'

A 911 recording and affidavits released Tuesday revealed more about the possible state of mind of Eddie Ray Routh, 25, after the shootings at a Glen Rose resort on Saturday that killed former SEAL and author Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield.

Routh told his sister that he and the two men "were out shooting target practice and he couldn't trust them so he killed them before they could kill him," according to a search warrant affidavit released by Lancaster police.

The sister told investigators that he seemed "out of his mind saying people were sucking his soul and that he could smell the pigs. He said he was going to get their souls before they took his," according to the affidavit.

There's more in this report from Angela K. Brown of The Associated Press.

Prosecutors: Everman man provided gun in fatal shooting; could get life in prison

Jeremy Hopkins, 31, of Everman is on trial in a Tarrant County court, not because he fatally shot a man during a robbery, but because he provided the gun, prosecutors say.

Hopkins' co-defendant, Frederick Jones, 32, of Fort Worth, has been convicted of pulling the trigger in the killing of Azmi Elqutob in east Fort Worth. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

If convicted, Hopkins could get the same sentence.

Mitch Mitchell is covering the case and his this report.

Argument over dog feces results in two deaths in Dallas, police say

Two people are dead and their elderly neighbor was in police custody Monday after an argument over dog feces led to gunfire early Monday in northeast Dallas.

Chung Kim, 75, was at a Dallas-area hospital late Monday where he was being treated for a medical condition unrelated to the shooting in which he is accused of killing  Michelle Jackson and Jamie Stafford, both 31.

The victims were upstairs neighbors at the apartment complex where Kim lived, police said.

Investigators believe that the neighbors dumped their dog's excrement at the front door and on the patio of Kim's downstairs apartment, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Read what happened next in this report from Bill Miller.

A killing in Kaufman: Cops probe slain prosecutor's case files; reward fund growning

Authorities don't know whether prosecutor Mark Hasse feared for his life before he was fatally shot Thursday in Kaufman, but on Friday they kept poring through his case files, searching for leads.

Kaufman police Chief Chris Aulbaugh said Hasse (shown here) was a licensed peace officer, but officials refused to say whether he was carrying a weapon when he was slain.

"We are reviewing Mr. Hasse's cases and following up on any leads that would give us rise for a person of interest," Aulbaugh said.

That could be a huge task, considering Hasse handled hundreds of cases as a prosecutor for Kaufman and Dallas counties.

Also Friday, donations were rolling in to fund the reward to help find who killed Hasse.

-- Compiled from the works of Alex Brand and The Associated Press

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