POLICE: TEEN SHOT TO DEATH AFTER BOTCHED BURGLARY
Police said an attempted burglary led to a shootout in broad daylight that left a teenager dead in Oak Cliff on Wednesday. Dallas police said 17-year-old Gabriel Flores kicked in the door to 79-year-old Iva Willis' home in the 300 block of Hobson Avenue at about 11 a.m. Willis' son, Charles Bircher, 53, said Flores opened fire on him when he stopped by his mother's house. Bircher, who has a concealed handgun license, fired back. Flores later died at a local hospital. Click here to read this story on NBCDFW.com.
CONFESSED KILLER OF 5 LOSES AT SUPREME COURT
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to review the case of a Tarrant County man who confessed to fatally shooting five relatives and was condemned for the deaths of two of them, his stepchildren gunned down while they slept. The high court's refusal moves Terry Lee Hankins closer to execution for the 2001 slayings of Kevin Galley, 12, and Ashley Mason, 11. Their bodies and the body of their mother, 34-year-old Tammy Hankins, were found in their mobile home in Mansfield. Click here to read this story on NBCDFW.com.
FATE OF BRAIN-DAMAGED BABY HANGS IN BALANCE
A motion to let doctors take a brain-damaged baby off life support was withdrawn by a court appointed attorney on Tuesday. The motion said the parents had not consented to withdrawing the support, but it argued that the move was in the child's best interests. His parents, David Cesar Coronado Sr., 23, and Ruthy Marie Chabolla, 22, were arrested Dec. 23 on charges of injury to a child. Bail was set at $500,000 each. Click here to read this story on NBDFW.com.
GRANDMA, BOYFRIEND ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES NEAR BURLESON
A Johnson County grandmother and her boyfriend were free on bond Wednesday after their arrests last week on drug charges, the Star-Telegram reports. Cathy Lynn Rutledge, 50, and Steven Arden Cobb, 49, were booked into the Johnson County Jail on first-degree felony charges after multiple officers executed a search warrant at their home Friday in the 10300 block of Shadow Valley Court. Click here to read this story from the Star-Telegram.
POLICE ARREST MEN ACCUSED OF MUGGING TOURISTS
Three men accused of mugging a man and woman visiting Arlington from out of state on Jan. 9 have been arrested, police said. Police said the pair was walking through a Hilton hotel parking lot in 2400 block of East Lamar toward a nearby restaurant at about 11 p.m. when an SUV approached and two men jumped out demanding their wallet and purse. Police said a license plate number collected by the victim led them to Moises Moreno and then Joe Garcia and Victor Torres.
EX-GRAPEVINE FIRE CAPTAIN SENTENCED FOR POSSESSING CHILD PORN
A former Grapevine Fire Department captain has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography, the Dallas Morning News reports. Marty Green, 46, of Carrollton, pleaded guilty on Oct. 8 to possession of visual depictions of minors involved in sexually explicit conduct, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Rebecca A. Gregory of the Eastern District of Texas. Click here to read this story from the Dallas Morning News.
