GARLAND, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Garland Police have arrested a man on a capital murder charge for a deadly shooting on Tuesday, October 1.
Fredrick Kirk, 23, is charged with the murder of Son Kim Nguyen, 50, of Austin.
Fredrick Kirk – Capital murder suspect (Garland PD)
Garland Police officers found Nguyen shot to death inside a parked vehicle in an apartment complex parking lot around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 300 block of East I-30.
Detectives began investigating Nguyen’s death as a murder and identified Kirk as the one responsible for his shooting death.
Kirk was located Friday afternoon, October 4, in Garland, where he was arrested.
Kirk is currently in the Garland Jail.
No bond has been set.
Police have not released any information on a possible motive or whether or not the two knew each other.
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Police released surveillance images Monday of a person of interest in a capital murder at Cafe Delicious on S. Lamar Street on Wednesday, September 25.
The man in the surveillance images is about 6 feet tall and 175 pounds, police say.
Person of interest in Cafe Delicious murder (Surveillance image)
Employee Bryan Harp was shot and killed during a robbery.
Cafe Delicious in Dallas where police say an employee was killed during a robbery. (Credit
CBS 11 News)
Early the next morning, a Dallas SWAT officer shot and killed a capital murder suspect who was carrying an assault rifle while running away from authorities early.
Police say the incident started at around 12:30 a.m. when SWAT officers were called to an apartment complex in the 9300 block of Skillman Street to execute a warrant on suspects for a deadly shooting at a cafe in Dallas.
Police were able to arrest the other suspects who ran from the vehicle. Police say the incident involved at least four suspects.
Police are continuing to investigate both incidents.
Anyone with information regarding the identity of the person of interest can call Detective F. Serra, #10031, at 214-671-4320 or by email at frank.serra@dpd.ci.dallas.tx.us.
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) — The Dallas man who confessed to killing and leaving 18-month-old Cedrick Jackson in a dumpster this summer now faces a capital murder charge.
Jackson was reported missing from the Twin Oaks Apartments in northeast Dallas around 6 a.m. July 10.
Shortly after officials issued a statewide Amber Alert, the 18-month-old’s aunt’s boyfriend, 27-year-old Sedrick Johnson, confessed to his part in the toddler’s death.
Sedrick Johnson (Dallas Police Department)
According to the arrest affidavit, Johnson swaddled Jackson to restrict his movement after he “made a mess” with ketchup packets. But after he became unresponsive, Johnson dumped his body in a nearby dumpster.
One day later, police found his body at a Rowlett landfill.
According to Jackson’s aunt, she woke up during the night he went missing and found that both Johnson and Jackson were not in the apartment. Child Protective Services had recently given her temporary custody of the child for reasons that are still unknown.
Johnson was initially arrested and charged with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury. His prior criminal history includes abandoning and endangering a child with intent to return, prostitution, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
He is currently in custody at the Dallas County Jail in lieu of a $1.003 million bond.
HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A man who prosecutors say was driven by vengeance when he shot and killed six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four children, was on Friday sentenced to death.
Jurors sentenced Ronald Lee Haskell after deliberating for little more than four hours.
The jury had to choose between life in prison without parole or a death sentence.
Ronald Lee Haskell (Harris County Sheriff’s Dept.)
The jury rejected his attorneys’ efforts to have him found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Haskell killed the couple and four of their children in the living room of their suburban Houston home in 2014. A fifth child, 15-year-old Cassidy Stay, was shot in the head but she survived by playing dead.
During closing arguments in the punishment phase of Haskell’s trial earlier Friday, prosecutor Kaylynn Williford described the terrifying scene as Haskell fulfilled his plan to kill his ex-wife’s family.
Williford described how Haskell shot 4-year-old Zach in the shoulder — an injury he could have survived — and said the frightened child scurried in the chaos to his father on a couch, burying his head in his father’s shoulder for protection.
But by that point, Zach’s father was already dead, Williford said.
“He scrambles over to his father, because that’s what little boys do,” Williford said.
Haskell then went over to Zach, pointed a gun to the back of his head and pulled the trigger, she said.
“How cold and vengeful do you have to be to take the life of a 4-year-old?” Williford said.
Cassidy Stay, now 20, was in court on Friday and cried when Williford detailed the killing of her family. At least one juror also wiped away tears. Stay testified at trial that she begged her uncle “please don’t hurt us” before Haskell opened fire.
Defense attorneys argued hard for a life sentence.
Neal Davis III said the 39-year-old man should spend the rest of his life thinking about what he has done and “die in prison.”
Doug Durham told jurors that at the heart of prosecutors’ arguments for a death sentence is “anger, hatred, fear, vengeance because of this terrible, terrible crime.”
Durham said Haskell’s long history of mental illness, in which he was treated by multiple doctors, should be considered by the jury as a mitigating factor in deciding that life in prison would be a more appropriate sentence. His attorneys said Haskell heard voices that told him to kill his ex-wife’s family.
Durham urged jurors to consider “compassion and forgiveness” instead of “hate, anger” when making their decision.
But prosecutor Lauren Bard told jurors that Haskell’s “issue is not his mental illness, his issue is his personality,” describing him as a “manipulative, selfish, narcissistic, blame-shifting monster.”
Prosecutors said Haskell had faked symptoms of mental illness and had meticulously crafted a plan to hurt anybody who helped his ex-wife, Melannie Lyon, after the couple divorced, traveling from California to Texas to carry out the killings.
To impose a death sentence, jurors have to find Haskell would be a future danger to society and that any mitigating factors — such as mental illness — were insufficient to merit a lesser sentence.
Besides Stephen and Katie Stay and their son Zach, Haskell also killed 7-year-old Rebecca; 9-year-old Emily; and 13-year-old Bryan. Katie Stay was Lyon’s sister.
Prosecutors only needed to charge Haskell with two of the deaths to get to capital murder. In cases with multiple murders, it is a common trial strategy for prosecutors to not charge the deaths all at once in case legal issues arise and new indictments are needed.
After the shooting, he reloaded his gun and headed to the homes of Lyon’s parents and brother so, according to prosecutors, he could complete his vengeful plan. He was arrested before reaching any other homes.
During the trial’s punishment phase, relatives of the Stays told jurors how their lives were devastated by the killings.
Haskell’s brother testified that his sibling “still has good in him.”
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ABILENE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Authorities have arrested a 34-year-old Texas man suspected of killing his girlfriend and the couple’s infant daughter and leaving their bodies in front of a ranch.
Cody Edmund Dixon, of Abilene, was arrested in nearby Baird on Saturday night on two preliminary counts of capital murder in the killings of his 9-month-old daughter, Aria Ellen Dixon, and 22-year-old girlfriend, Alia Rae Hutchinson, who had moved down from Wisconsin to be with Dixon.
Cody Edmund Dixon (Taylor County Jail)
Rick Jowers, the chief sheriff’s deputy in Callahan County, said Dixon told officers that he was being chased by someone who wanted to kill him and that God told him to kill his girlfriend and daughter.
The victims’ bodies were discovered outside the front gate of a ranch between Baird and Putnam.
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WACO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Texas man who was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting two teenagers in 1992 is a free man without pending charges after a district attorney dismissed the case.
Richard Bryan Kussmaul was convicted of capital murder in 1994 for killing 17-year-old Leslie Murphy and 14-year-old Stephen Neighbors in a mobile home near Moody, about 100 miles south of Dallas. His conviction was vacated last year due to DNA evidence that cleared him of the deaths.
The McLennan County District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday dismissed the charges, citing “passage of time,” testimony retractions from Kussmaul’s three co-defendants and improvements in DNA technology, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported.
The DA on Wednesday also dismissed charges against James Edward Long, Michael Dewayne Shelton and James Wayne Pitts Jr., who were convicted of sexual assault at the time of the attack on Murphy and sentenced to 20 years. Long and Pitts have both been released after serving their full sentences. Shelton won parole after serving 17 years.
Kussmaul, who has been free on bond since April, has been living with his sister in Moody and looking for work.
“I am trying to move on, but I have lost everything,” Kussmaul said. “They are not focusing on who might have actually did this crime… It has ruined my life and the lives of the other three guys, and there is a murderer running loose out there somewhere.”
Assistant District Attorney Nelson Barnes said he intends to refer the murder case to the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office cold case unit for further investigation.
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DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) —The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has captured Mark Anthony Ponce, 26, a fugitive wanted for capital murder in Dallas County.
Ponce was returned to the United States following his deportation from Mexico on October 16, 2019.
On September 17, 2014, Ponce allegedly kicked in the front door of his ex-girlfriend’s apartment in Dallas. He allegedly shot and killed his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend, who was visiting at the time. Ponce immediately fled the scene of the crime. After a local arrest warrant was issued for Ponce, he was charged with capital murder the next day.
A federal arrest warrant was issued on November 19, 2014, by the United States District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, after Ponce was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
The FBI Dallas Violent Crime Task Force, FBI Legat Mexico City, Aguascalientes State Police, and the Instituto Nacional de Migración worked collaboratively to ensure Ponce’s arrest. His return was funded by the United States Government’s “Project Welcome Home,” which provides funding to assist in the transportation of federal fugitives to the United States.
Ponce was transported to Mexico City and escorted back to Dallas by an agent with the Instituto Nacional de Migración and an agent with the FBI’s Legal Attaché Office (Legat) in Mexico City. Ponce arrived on October 17, 2019 at DFW Airport. FBI Dallas special agents then transferred him to the custody of the Dallas Police Department who booked him into the Dallas County Jail.
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Detectives with the Dallas Police Department have identified two men in connection to the shooting death of ex-NBA player Andre Emmett, 37.
His body was found by a passerby at 2:30 a.m. Sept. 23 on the side of the street at 1800 N. Prairie Avenue, near Munger Avenue. First responders transported the father of two to a nearby hospital where he died.
Through the course of the investigation they determined that Michael Lucky, 29, and Keith Johnson, 32, were responsible for Emmett’s death.
Keith Johnson (left), Michael Lucky (right) (photo credit: Dallas Police Department)
On October 19, 2019, Dallas homicide detectives obtained capital murder warrants for their arrests.
Johnson, who is currently in jail on unrelated charges, was also charged with capital murder.
He is currently being held in the Dallas County Jail in lieu of a $501,087 bond.
Lucky turned himself in at Jack Evans Headquarters Monday afternoon.
CRANDALL, TX (CBSDFW.COM) — An elderly woman is in guarded but stable condition after an armed suspect robbed her, tied her to a chair and set fire to her Kaufman County home last week.
According to the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office, the 78-year-old told officials that she answered her door just after 9:30 a.m. Oct. 15, to find the suspect pointing a pistol at her.
Kaufman County Robbery Suspect (Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office)
She said the suspect — described as a woman — pushed her way into the house, demanded money and tied her to a chair. The suspect then rummaged through the house and — before leaving — set a fire in the kitchen, leaving the victim tied to the chair.
Kaufman County 911 received a call reporting a fire with a person still inside.
Officials said that a Good Samaritan went into the house and — with the help of Crandall firefighters — found the victim tied to the chair and rescued her from the residence.
The suspect is being sought for attempted capital murder, aggravated robbery and arson causing serious bodily injury. Officials said she was wearing a black hoodie at the time and was described as heavy-set with strawberry hair and wearing gold-rimmed glasses.
Anyone with information is asked to call investigator Weisbruch at 972-932-9735.
The Texas Rangers are assisting in the investigation.
GREENVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Hunt County authorities have arrested and charged a man in the capital murder of two people at a party Saturday night.
Brandon Gonzales, 23, is charged with capital murder of multiple persons and his bond is set at $1,000,000.
Gonzales was arrested at a local car dealership where he worked as a mechanic.
Brandon Gonzales – capital murder suspect (Hunt County Jail)
There is no word on a motive, but Sheriff Randy Meeks said it appears Gonzales acted alone.
Sheriff Meeks said multiple tips helped lead investigators to the identity of the alleged shooter.
“We have visited with him. He has cooperated some, but not a whole lot,” Sheriff Meeks said at a Monday afternoon news conference.
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The shooting happened at The Party Venue on Highway 380 just outside of Greenville.
Of the 12 people injured, six were shot — four critically injured — and the other six were hurt running for their lives.
There were approximately 750 people at the party that coincided with homecoming week at Texas A&M University-Commerce, though the function was not a school sanctioned event.
According to deputies, it was around 11:30 p.m. when the shooter slipped in the back of the building and started firing a hand gun.
Investigators believe the shooter had an intended victim, but the rest of the people hit were random.
There were no surveillance cameras at the location.
“We kept pushing and pushing until we got one tip that led to another, that led to another, and we were able to come up with the identity of the shooter,” Sheriff Meeks said.
Kevin Berry, Jr. of Dallas and Byron Cravens, Jr. of Arlington, both 23, were the two men killed at the party.
Kevin Berry, Jr. (Facebook)
Byron Cravens, Jr.
Texas A&M-Commerce confirms four of the people injured were students who were treated and released.
Texas A&M University-Commerce is about 60 miles northeast of Dallas.
Sheriff Meeks said his department is still following up leads and looking for more evidence.
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The parents of one man killed in the Greenville homecoming party shooting said they don’t know anything about the accused shooter, Brandon Gonzales.
Byron Craven Jr., 23, of Arlington is one of two shooting victims killed Saturday night.
Byron Craven, Jr. (credit: Craven family)
He attended the party with a cousin. They were celebrating Craven’s birthday. His parents said Monday they know their son was an innocent victim; caught in the horror of a gunman’s violence.
“No parent should have to go through this. No parent,” said Byron’s father, Byron Craven Sr. “My son was a loving, caring son. He just wanted to see people happy. If he needed to do something to help you, he’d go out of his way you were okay.”
The other victim of the deadly shooting is 23-year-old Kevin Berry.
The Craven’s said their son did not Berry or the accused shooter.
GREENVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas A&M University-Commerce has cancelled classes Tuesday and Wednesday in the wake of the mass shooting Saturday night that killed two people and injured 12.
In a letter to the student body on the university’s website Monday evening, President Mark Rudin said, “We acknowledge your need for valuable healing time following the Greenville tragedy.”
On Monday afternoon, Hunt County authorities announced they had arrested and charged Brandon Gonzales, 23, in the capital murder of two people at a party Saturday night.
His bond is set at $1,000,000.
Here is the full letter from President Rudin.
Dear Students,
We hear you. Your mental, physical, and emotional health remain our priority. As a result, we have decided to cancel all classes for Tuesday, October 29 and Wednesday, October 30, 2019, at all locations. We acknowledge your need for valuable healing time following the Greenville tragedy.
All essential services, including residential life and dining operations, will be open on a normal schedule. We will also continue to provide ongoing counseling and other support services to help you during the healing process.
For counseling services, please visit the counseling center located on the Commerce campus in the Halladay Student Services Building, or call (903) 886-5145.
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Former Lyft driver Glen Richter, 49, has been indicted for capital murder of a young woman whose body was left in a burning SUV.
Glen Richter mugshot (Credit: Dallas County Jail)
The indictment says Sara Hudson, 22, was headed to celebrate her birthday in August, when Richter kidnapped, robbed, sexually assaulted and killed her.
Sara Hudson (courtesy: Hudson’s family)
He’s in the Dallas County Jail with bond set at $1 million.
Hudson’s family released the following statement Thursday upon learning of the indictment:
We are aware of the grand jury’s indictment today of Glen Richter for the capital murder of our beloved Sara. Her tragic death weighs heavily on our hearts and minds each and every day. It is important to respect the rule of law, including the grand jury’s decision and the legal path forward that will allow justice for Sara. It is in that spirit that we intend to honor and respect all involved — from Sara, to the Dallas Police Department and the personnel at the District Attorney’s office, to the courts and citizens tasked with their obligations in the judicial process. We will make no further comments, at this time, to ensure the integrity of the court process. We pray without ceasing about Sara, all those touched by her death and, now, this legal process. We miss her now and will forever — knowing so many others do, too.
According to the arrest warrant, surveillance video showed Hudson getting out of vehicle before Richter approached her and then forced her back into the vehicle. Police were able to gather fingerprints from two of the vehicle’s doors, which led them to the suspect.
Police sources say 22-year-old Sara Hudson was carjacked at gunpoint and forced to an ATM by Richter.
At some point during the two hours she was missing they ended up in this parking lot behind Lower Greenville Avenue bars where a security camera recorded the victim getting out of her white SUV but being forced back inside at gunpoint.
She was later found dead inside the back hatch area after the vehicle had been set on fire.
SAN ANTONIO (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A San Antonio teen accused of beating his mother with a baseball bat and slitting her throat has pleaded guilty to her murder.
Matthew Dempsey pleaded guilty Thursday in the April 8 slaying of 53-year-old Mary Dempsey. Dempsey and his friend, Daniel Apolonio Saucedo, were both 18 when they were charged with capital murder in her death.
Matthew Dempsey (Credit: San Antonio Police Department)
As part of a plea agreement, Dempsey pleaded guilty to a lesser offense of murder in exchange for his cooperation in the case and a 42-year prison term.
An arrest affidavit said the young men attacked Dempsey’s mother when she walked in on them robbing her home.
Saucedo awaits trial on the capital murder charge.
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HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at Santa Fe High School last year has been declared incompetent to stand trial by three experts, his attorney said.
The determination means Dimitrios Pagourtzis’ trial will be delayed after it was set to begin in February.
Nick Poehl, one of Pagourtzis’ attorneys, said Monday a formal court order declaring him incompetent is expected later this week.
Dimitrios Pagourtzis. (credit: Galveston County Jail)
Pagourtzis will be sent to a state mental health facility, where he will stay for four to six months.
Poehl says prosecutors will go along with the experts’ findings.
Pagourtzis is charged with capital murder for the Santa Fe High School mass shooting in May 2018 that killed 10 people and wounded 13 others.
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GREENVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – The Hunt County Sheriff’s Office has requested the Hunt County District Attorney’s Office take no action on Brandon Gonzales’ case and that he be released from custody.
Brandon Gonzales released from Hunt County Jail (Erin Jones – CBS 11)
Gonzales was arrested at a local car dealership where he worked as a mechanic.
The Hunt County Sheriff’ Randy Meeks said “the probable cause arrest was based on credible information and statements given to law enforcement. Law enforcement has diligently investigated this case and in the days since the arrest, additional information has come to light.”
Gonzales’ family has been saying all along, he was not the shooter.“
Brandon Gonzales is released from the Hunt County Jail. (CBS 11)
Not really having full evidence — no gun, nothing else — would you really throw away that man’s life because you’re trying to get the case done quickly?” asked his cousin Philip Williams late last month.
Sheriff Meeks said in a news release, “We will continue our investigative efforts into the shooting. We know there are many people who were present at the Party Venue on Sunday, October 27, 2019 who have not spoken with law enforcement. Though individuals may have reasons for not wishing to come forward, we ask that they do so and tell law enforcement what you saw and heard that night no matter how small the information may be. They may not know the importance of any information they have.”
Anyone with information regarding this case, please contact the Hunt County Sherriff’s Office at 903-408-6800, or to remain anonymous you may contact Hunt County Crime Stoppers at 903-457-2929.
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A jury has found a North Texas man guilty of capital murder in the fatal shooting and beheading of his roommate and fatal shooting of the roommate’s 17-year-old girlfriend as she tried to get away.
The Tarrant County jury deliberated for more than five hours in Fort Worth before finding Hector Acosta-Ojeda guilty of capital murder in the September 2017 killings of Erick Zelaya and Iris Chirinos.
Hector Acosta-Ojeda
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty when testimony begins Wednesday on sentencing.
If a jury can’t agree on death, Acosta-Ojeda would receive a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole.
Police began a death investigation in the 800 block of E. Sanford Street near 400 Truman Street.
Someone reported finding human remains in a wooded area near a creek.
human remains found in Arlington (Chopper11)
During the execution of a search warrant, additional human remains believed to belong to a second person were also found by investigators.
It’s in the backyard of the home at 202 Burton Drive where the bodies of a male and female have been found buried.
But about quarter-mile from there, someone found a severed head that belongs to one of the bodies.
A note written in Spanish was found next to the head and made a reference to being disloyal to a group.
ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – A Tarrant County jury sentenced convicted killer Hector Acosta to the death penalty for the September 2017 murders of Erick Zelaya and 17-year-old Iris Chirinos in Arlington.
Acosta, a self-proclaimed sicario (“hitman”) for the Cartel Del Noreste shot his then-roommate Zelaya and his girlfriend Chirinos in their sleep, before mutilating their bodies with a machete and two-by-four. He decapitated Zelaya, and after dumping the bodies in a shallow grave in his backyard, he rode a bicycle through the neighborhood to a walking trail a few blocks away where he left Zelaya’s head along with a sign threatening future violence. Acosta claimed to have killed the couple in retaliation for a past drive-by incident in which he believed Zelaya had been a participant.
During the punishment phase of the trial, the prosecution introduced evidence of another capital murder Acosta was believed to have committed in a Fort Worth house. In July 2017, Acosta and accomplices bound and viciously beat Triston Algiene while robbing him. After Algiene gave them the wrong PIN number for his bank account, he was shot to death. Acosta then cut his body in half, buried him under the house and covered his body with cement. Arlington Police Detective Grant Gildon received information about this murder and informed Fort Worth Police, who discovered the body after digging up the concrete slab. The hard work of Gildon, fellow Arlington PD Detective Michael Barakat and Fort Worth Police Detectives Jerry Cedillo and Ernie Pate was instrumental in bringing Acosta to justice.
“Have you ever knowingly in your life sat in the room with a more dangerous person?” lead prosecutor Kevin Rousseau asked the jury in closing arguments for the punishment phase. “He can’t follow the rules of a cartel, but you are expected to believe he’ll follow the rules of a prison warden? He is extraordinarily violent. He deals in terror. It’s his job.”
A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Acosta allegedly showed an interest in gang life from as early as age 7. He participated in multiple gangs in both Mexico and Houston before joining the Cartel Del Noreste for which he claimed to have performed kidnappings, tortures and other murders. Evidence was presented that while being held in the jail awaiting trial, Acosta attempted to start a drug trafficking operation.
“Acosta is not a product of a bad environment,” said prosecutor Tim Rodgers. “He is the bad element in his environment. That’s what he is and what he wants to be.”
Jurors deliberated for just over four hours before sentencing Acosta to the death penalty.
“Some people can get better. Some are just bad,” said Rodgers.
FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A suspect has been arrested in connection to a triple shooting in Burleson that left three people in critical condition, and officers now say he’s also connected to a homicide in Fort Worth.
Henry McKinney, 30, is being held at the Tarrant County Jail charged with three counts of attempted capital murder, aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Police say additional charges, include capital murder, are forthcoming.
Henry McKinney (Tarrant County Jail)
On November 5 just before 6:00 a.m., Fort Worth Police were called to the 2500 block of Bomar Avenue. That’s where they found Allen Foster unconscious, he’d been shot.
Foster later died at the hospital.
“We realized the vehicle Mr. Foster owned was actually stole at the same time that he was injured, and that actual vehicle was used in the shooting in Burleson, Texas,” said Officer Buddy Calzada with Fort Worth Police.
That shooting in Burleson happened on Timber Ridge Drive.
Burleson Police Department detectives pointed to McKinney as their suspect.
Authorities also told CBS 11 News that he’s linked to at least two other shootings that happened in Fort Worth, but details aren’t being released at this time.
Burleson PD, Fort Worth PD, the Johnson County STOP Task Force and the Texas Rangers worked together to investigate each crime and apprehended the McKinney.
He was arrested during a traffic stop on Tuesday, November 12 without incident.
He was convicted on two counts of capital murder for the shooting deaths of a father and his 3-year-old son. Now a Texas man will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
