Woman fatally shot man whose body was found months later in east Oak Cliff, Dallas police say

A woman is behind bars on a murder charge after Dallas police say she killed a man whose body wasn’t found for two months.

Jovonda Keshell Starling, 28, was booked into the Dallas County jail Monday in connection with the slaying of 31-year-old Lamarcus Washington.

Police were called Nov. 5 to a field in the 3000 block of Southerland Avenue, near East Kiest Boulevard in east Oak Cliff, where workers trimming trees near power lines had discovered a decomposing corpse near a stream.

The Dallas County medical examiner’s office identified the body as that of Washington, whose family had reported him missing Sept. 10. He had been shot in the head.

A detective wrote in an arrest-warrant affidavit that police spoke to a man who said he’d dropped off Washington at a home in the 2800 block of Canary Drive in early September so Washington could see a man known as “Jumpman Jordan.” That home, about a mile from where Washington’s body was found, is a known drug house, police said.

Police obtained a search warrant for the home and found possible blood evidence in one of the bedrooms, the affidavit says.

A detective later spoke to a witness who said he’d gone to the house to have Washington cut his hair, the affidavit says. During the haircut, the witness said, Washington grabbed an assault-style rifle and went into a bedroom where “Jumpman Jordan” was.

The witness said he heard that man ask whether Washington was going to shoot him, according to the affidavit.