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Authorities have arrested a man accused of fatally shooting another man outside a convenience store in far northeast Dallas last month. Melvin Crowder(Dallas County Sheriff’s Office) Melvin Crowder, 25, was jailed on a murder charge Tuesday in the death of James Burks, 33. Officers were called about 12:40 p.m. Nov. 20 to a shooting in the 12100 block of Abrams Road, …

The 23-year-old driver of a stolen pickup was killed after losing control of the vehicle and flipping into a Kroger parking lot while fleeing police in Arlington Tuesday afternoon. Tipped off by Irving police, officers in Arlington had been briefed to be on the lookout for the suspect, who was out on bond on charges of burglary and unauthorized use …

A 20-year-old man is behind bars after his former girlfriend was found stabbed to death Monday night in DeSoto. Matthew Shane Gonzalez(DeSoto Police Department) Matthew Shane Gonzalez was arrested on a murder charge Tuesday morning in Irving, DeSoto police said. Police were called about 8:20 p.m. Monday to a home in the 1200 block of Greenbrook Drive, where they found …

Mayor Eric Johnson is demanding a plan by the end of the year to reduce crime in Dallas. In a hard-bitten letter to City Manager T.C. Broadnax that highlights a rash of statistics illustrating violent crime, Johnson on Tuesday set a high expectation for the Police Department in 2020 to work “more aggressively and transparently.” The letter contains the mayor’s most …

A drive-by shooting victim was found wounded late Monday in a car full of bullet holes, Dallas police said. The crash was reported around 10:50 p.m. on Interstate 635 at the Royal Lane/Miller Road exit, near the border of Lake Highlands and far northeast Dallas. A crew from Dallas Fire-Rescue found the vehicle crashed on an embankment next to the …

One of the two women charged in the slayings of two Plano residents in their 70s confessed to police that she stabbed both of them, leaving a grisly scene for Plano police to discover after a traffic stop outside Waco led to her arrest, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit. Carmen Moreno, 23, faces capital murder charges in connection with the November …

Last Christmas, as North Texas families and friends celebrated into the night, Bryan Keith Miller drove to a warehouse area southeast of Fort Worth with five pipe bombs in his car, federal court records say. Police who responded to a burglary call found that Miller also had body armor, several knives, camouflage outfits, military gear, rifle ammunition and magazines, “camo …

Three youths are in custody and a fourth suspect remains at large in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman at a Duncanville apartment complex two months ago, police say. Cornelius Lydell Broadway (left), Jeromey Lemar Young Jr.(Dallas County Sheriff’s Department) Aaija Smoker, 18, was found dead the morning of Oct. 5 in an apartment in the 200 block of East …

No one knew what kind of evil was visiting North Texas senior living communities. But when a precious necklace went missing from her dead mother’s apartment, Shannon Gleason Dion began a long and difficult search for the truth. Read what she found — and what it means for more than a dozen North Texas families — this week in The Dallas …

Fort Worth police are investigating after a teenage boy was found shot to death behind an abandoned gas station over the weekend. Authorities were called just before noon Saturday to the 2100 block of Stalcup Road, near Elgin Street, where an unconscious person had been reported. They found the body of 16-year-old Javarus Jackson behind the gas station. According to …