From staff reports
Mar 3, 2021
Two men have been indicted for capital murder in the deaths of three people, two of whose bodies were found inside an abandoned building in Palo Pinto County, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney s Office announced Tuesday.
Andrew Joseph Vandermeer and Lamont Cousins were indicted for the capital murder of Virginia Lewis, Clayton Turrentine and Veronica Jones.
On Dec. 14, Fort Worth PD investigators responded to the shooting death of a woman inside a building along Benbrook Highway. The next day, two additional victims from the case were located in a building on south Farm-to-Market Road 4. Investigators from the Palo Pinto County Sheriff s Office and Fort Worth PD conducted a joint investigation at the scene, Palo Pinto County Sheriff Brett McGuire said.
A grand jury has indicted an 18-year-old on a capital murder charge in the killing of actor Eddie Hassell during a carjacking in suburban Dallas.
D’Jon Antone, who lives in Dallas, was indicted Wednesday, Anna Tinsley Williams, the Communications Officer for Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, confirmed to USA TODAY Friday.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News report that Antone was arrested in November, just days after Hassell was fatally shot in Grand Prairie, Texas.
USA TODAY has reached out to the Grand Prairie Police Department for comment.
Hassell, who was born in Corsicana, Texas, was known for his roles in the NBC show “Surface” and the 2010 film “The Kids Are All Right.” Hassell was living in Waco but had been staying with a woman at an apartment in Grand Prairie, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
They have to be held accountable. Dad says death of Grand Prairie boy was preventable
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Jan. 21 The last time Joseph King spoke to his son, the 6-year-old was about to start his first baseball practice.
Joseph King III, known to most as Jojo, told his dad over FaceTime how excited he was about baseball. King, who lives in Georgia, told Jojo to watch for the baseball bag, cleats and bat that he sent in the mail, then watched from hundreds of miles away as Jojo ran onto a baseball field in Grand Prairie.
Tarrant County Reminds Citizens of Year-Round ‘No Refusal Rule as the Holidays Approach Under the No Refusal rule, drivers pulled over for suspected impaired driving who refuse to take a routine breath test will be subject to a court-ordered blood test instead
Published December 15, 2020 •
Updated on December 15, 2020 at 2:57 pm
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Tarrant County is reminding citizens as they gear up for holiday celebrations that the county is No Refusal year-round.
Tarrant County Law enforcement leaders and Criminal District Attorney Sharen Wilson announced earlier this year that law enforcement is on the streets all day, year-round, cracking down on drunk driving.