The question of who shot and killed 28-year-old Stephanie Terlisner on Saturday evening did not go unanswered for long. This morning, Dallas police released an affidavit pinning the murder on 19-year-old Ka’Darius Demond Barrett. According to the affidavit, it was about 7 p.m. Barrett burst through the front door of…
The man who walked into the Knox Street Apple Store with his family on Sunday afternoon was operating on a pair of assumptions. One was that no one would suspect the guy holding the small child of stealing a rechargeable iPhone battery. The other was that, if someone did, they…
In the lead up to this weekend’s UT-Oklahoma matchup, there was talk that dispirited Longhorns fans weren’t all that interested in watching their team get pummeled by the heavily favored Sooners. The evidence? Tickets for the burnt-orange side of the stadium were going for a paltry $209 each on the…
Whatever turns in Stephanie Terlisner’s life took her to the house at the end of Cool Morn Drive on Saturday evening, it was the wrong place and the wrong time. At about 7 p.m., an armed robber burst into the home and shot Terlisner in the chest, The Dallas Morning…
Update at 2:45 p.m.: Deion has reportedly been unfired. Update on October 11: Prime Prep Academy, the charter school that Deion Sanders co-founded, has fired Deion Sanders. The announcement comes in a terse press release from superintendent Rachel King-Sanders. “Effective immediately, Deion Sanders is no longer an employee or representative…
During his four years as an undergrad at UT-Dallas, Ross Ulbricht earned a handful of mentions on the school’s website. His name appeared on a list of students at the NanoTech Institute, on a 2004 press release about students competing in an academic tournament, on a handful of research papers…
Turns out, Michael John Yowell had nothing to worry about. A week after filing a federal lawsuit to delay his execution on the grounds that the state’s custom-made supply of pentobarbital, ordered hastily from a Houston-area compounding pharmacy last month, might cause an unconstitutional amount of suffering, the 43-year-old convicted…
Douglas Campbell has not been convicted of any crime. The allegations of sexual assault by a public servant, official oppression and theft, reported today by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Deanna Boyd, are exactly that — allegations. That said, we’re going to go out on a limb here and say that,…
The Delta Plaza apartment complex in South Dallas recently gave its tenants a little midweek surprise: On Thursday, they found out that they all had to move. Tenants say they got the news via a note on the door, apparently taped there by the property manager. “You have violated your…
From the start, something about Michelle Williams’ story just didn’t add up. She told police that a man, dressed in black and carrying a wrench, had broken into her Keller home one October morning and shot her husband, 40-year-old Gregory Williams, in the temple. But there was no sign of…
Death row inmate Michael Yowell’s last-minute, Hail Mary lawsuit, based on the claim that the state was going to experiment on him with untested execution drugs, failed to sway U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes. In an order handed down Saturday, he dismissed that as “a guess piled on an assumption”…
It’s always a thankless task, manning the counter at a convenience store, but it was particularly unpleasant for those who happened to be working the graveyard shift at southern Dallas 7-Elevens last night. In the span of just over an hour and a half, four of the stores were robbed…
Richard Slatkin must have appreciated the irony in his predicament. Here he was, a 66-year-old private investigator who caught cheating spouses for a living — whose stock and trade was sorting through lies to find something near the truth — and he was being divorced by a wife who had…
Earlier in the week, 59-year-old Robert Prichard learned he would be staying in jail for the time being. A Dallas County judge upped his bail to $50,000 on a felony animal cruelty charge and sent him back to Lew Sterrett. The upside for Prichard is that he now has more…
John Boehr, a 31-year-old opera singer from Carrollton, says he was violently mugged Thursday afternoon as he walked to choir practice in South Dallas. The attack happened at 3:10 p.m., as Boehr was en route to the Dallas Opera’s rehearsal facility at 4301 S. Fitzhugh, on the far eastern edge…
UPDATE: After this item ran, we sent a question to Texas Department of Criminal Justice public information director Jason Clark, asking him — not to put too fine a point on it — why Texas doesn’t just switch to an alternative method of execution altogether, like the electric chair. The…
When it was first announced, all the way back in January, the Frisco Gun Club billed itself as the nation’s largest indoor shooting range. Nine months later, as club prepares to open this month, it has dropped that claim, focusing instead on its luxurious VIP lounge and culinary offerings. There’s…
Now that the war in Iraq is officially over and the one in Afghanistan winding down, the Department of Defense found itself facing a conundrum. It had just spent billions of dollars buying heavily armored personnel carriers designed to stand up to insurgent attacks only to find that it had…
Update at 1:11 p.m.: Police have identified the homeowner as 57-year-old William Hall. According to county property records, he lives at 10316 Sandra Lynn Drive, which shares an alley with Plummer Drive. At a press conference this morning, police provided a more detailed narrative of the shooting, which you can…
It’s a question that stumps even the most erudite of moral philosophers: who beats their own grandmother? What type of vile creature would stoop so low as to willingly injure a blood relative, much less one who’s frail and 85 years old? Here, at last, is the answer: James Dolan…
The Founding Fathers were farsighted men. They were wise enough to write iron-clad protections of individual liberty into the Bill of Rights and wise enough to craft those protections with just enough wiggle room that, three centuries on, they would still be relevant. Take the Second Amendment: A well regulated…
The goal of the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty — of fostering international peace and cooperation and “reducing human suffering” — is laudable. Its methods, which basically consist of asking countries to monitor gun exports so they don’t wind up in the hands of terrorists and other malevolent actors, are commonsense…
