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A Dallas committee will investigate why a police officer remained on active duty after he was implicated in two 2017 killings.

Jaime Resendez  In an email newsletter sent out to constituents, Johnson also wrote that he was “going to push for answers.” “While the case remains under investigation and all the evidence needs to be heard, it was sickening to learn of the allegations on Thursday,” the mayor said in the newsletter. “Justice must be served in this case. The loved ones of the victims, especially, should hear the truth.” In the newsletter, he wrote that the situation raises “a host of other questi...

A police officer in Dallas kept his job for more than 1 year as he became the focal point of a murder investigation INSIDER 3/7/2021 mhumphries@businessinsider.com (Monica Humphries) © LAURA BUCKMAN/AFP via Getty Images, Dallas County Sheriffs Office/AP Images Bryan Riser, left, was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder. LAURA BUCKMAN/AFP via Getty Images, Dallas County Sheriffs Office/AP Images In 2019, the Dallas Police Department received a tip that one ...

Former Dallas police chief, FBI official dispute reasoning behind decision to leave cop on the job during murder investigation An FBI official said Friday that ex-Chief U. Reneé Hall was wrong to say the bureau was involved in that call, but Hall said her statement had been mischaracterized. Matthew DeSarno, special agent in charge of the FBI Dallas Field Office, seen speaking at a news conference in August, said Friday that he disputed a statement by former Dallas police Chief U. Reneé Hall ...

A Dallas police officer who was under investigation for ordering the deaths of two people was allowed to patrol for a year to avoid tipping him off. The former police chief of Dallas, Renee Hall, told The Dallas Morning News that the department allowed officer Bryan Riser to continue his normal patrolling while an investigation was underway to determine whether or not he ordered the killings of two people. Ms Hall told the paper that it was...

"We did not at any time and would not make recommendations about pulling him or leaving him on duty,” DeSarno said. “We at no time asked them to leave him on duty." Within hours, Hall issued a new statement, explaining the suggestion came from department investigators and not federal agents. She said the police department and not the FBI was the lead agency in the investigation. “The special agent’s statement is correct and my statement is correct,” Hall said. “It’s disappointing ...

“It was always still the love, the smiles, the laughter because he was always a bubbly person,” Thomas said. Douglas, she said, grew up in southern Dallas. He was a father of two and a grandfather who she said was battling cancer when he disappeared in February 2017. “I immediately started my search and I kept saying someone has to know where this guy is, he would never leave this neighborhood,” Thomas said. In 2019, she said the family was told someone confessed to killing Douglas. The...

Dallas police officer Bryan Riser faces two capital murder charges for the deaths of Lisa Saenz and Albert Douglas CNN 3/5/2021 © Ronald Martinez/Getty Images A Dallas police officer is accused of offering to pay another person to kidnap and kill two people in 2017, Dallas Police Chief Eddie García announced Thursday. Officer Bryan Riser, a 12-year veteran of the department, faces two counts of capital murder, the chief announced at a news conference. "This criminal investigation dates ba...

Dallas police officer charged with killing two people in 2017 By (0) March 5 (UPI) -- A Dallas police officer has been arrested and charged with killing two people in 2017 after an investigation was launched following a witness implicating him in their deaths, authorities said. Officer Bryan Riser was arrested Thursday morning and charged two counts of capital murder for the deaths of Liza Saenz, 31, and Albert Douglas, 61, Dallas Police Chief Edgardo Garcia announced Thursday during a press ...

In 2017, a 30-year-old Texas woman was murdered, as was, in a separate incident, a 60-year-old man from the state. Four years later, a Dallas police officer has been arrested,...