A 19-year-old man was arrested Monday in the fatal shooting of another 19-year-old in west Oak Cliff, Dallas police said. Armando Limon Gutierrez is suspected of killing Jose Hernandez in the early hours of Monday morning, police said. Officers were called about 1:30 a.m. to the 1200 block of McLean Avenue, where witnesses reported that the pair fought over a …

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 …

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the new virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Deonte Hicks’ murder didn’t make headlines in May. His killing is one of more than 350 murders in the city of Houston in 2020 alone. Those responsible remain on the run. Hicks’ family told Eyewitness News they’ve lost confidence in the Houston Police Department to solve the murder. They drove down from Dallas on Friday to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston’s murderous 2020 is showing no signs of slowing down. In the last three days, the city lost six more people to murder. The total now sits at 353 killings in 2020 in the city of Houston alone. It is a 45% increase over the murder rate this time last year. The increase of 109 killings …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It’s been a long and tragic year, but help with COVID-19 is on the way. Pfizer is in the process of applying for an emergency use authorization (EAU) from the FDA for its vaccine, which has proven to be 95% effective in a trial. The FDA just announced it will review Pfizer’s EUA on Dec. 10. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Five days ago, Diana Jacquelin Ortiz was killed in a wrong-way crash on US-59 south and Highway 6 as she was driving home from work. Johnny Bladimir Martinez, 35, is facing charges of intoxication manslaughter. He’s currently out an a $150,000 bond. Friends and family are still in disbelief. “It’s devastating,” one of Ortiz’s friends said. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Another round of dense fog is likely Saturday morning. If your neighborhood goes under a Dense Fog Advisory, that means the visibility outside is 1/4 mile or less. Temperatures will drop into the lower 60s as the fog forms. Once the fog burns off we should get abundant sunshine to warm temperatures into the lower 80s. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The medical examiner has officially ruled 2-year-old Maliyah Bass’ death a homicide and the primary cause of death homicidal violence. The ruling came down three months after the Houston girl’s body was found in Brays Bayou, and more than a month after Houston police arrested the girl’s mother and the mom’s boyfriend as suspects in the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A glimmer of hope is near with a possible COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon. Dr. Peter Hotez, professor and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, said we should be in a much better place by summer 2021. …