Tchad Read News Today

The disdain that local lawyers and judges have toward ordinary citizens recently made national news when a citizen journalist published a video from a recent fundraiser organized by Texas law firm KoonsFuller, local attorneys, and criminal court judge David Cook. The early-August event at the Fort Worth Community

District Judge R.H.Wallace issued an order consolidating two wrongful death lawsuits filed against Kyle Carruth by the family of Chad Read.

Just minutes into Brooks McKenzie’s hour-long presentation, two attendees of a grassroots political group’s monthly meeting stormed out of House of Grace Church in North Richland Hills. The lecture that took aim at the state attorney general’s child support division and family courts apparently miffed an AG staffer

Here are some of the top stories from 2022 that made an impact in Lubbock and the South Plains.

William Kyle Carruth opened fire on Chad Read after the two squared up against each other and wrestled over a gun in Lubbock, Texas, on November 5.

A Texas man who was seen on video shooting and killing a man during a custody fight won't ...

A special Lubbock grand jury declined to indict Kyle Carruth in the Nov. 5 deadly shooting of Chad Read.

Carruth shot Chad Read to death during a confrontation at a south Lubbock residence in November of last year. The grand jury made its ruling on Thursday.

Early voting results showed John C. Grace earing about 54 percent of the 16,133 votes cast during the early election period.

Kyle Carruths attorney, H. Grady Terrill, stated his client was forced to use deadly force "to defend himself, his property and others, which caused the death of Chad Read."