Constable out of hospital after being shot during police chase with fugitives wanted for Dallas homicide
Constable recovering after being shot during police chase with fugitives wanted for Dallas homicide
Hill County Constable Kevin Cordell was wounded before the two murder suspects engaged other officers in a shootout on Interstate 35.
ALVARADO, Texas - A constable who was shot during a multi-county high-speed chase Thursday afternoon is out of the hospital.
Hill County Constable Kevin Cordell was wounded before the two murder suspects engaged other officers in a shootout on Interstate 35.
One of those suspects is now dead.
The high drama following the police chase unfolded on I-35W, near Alvarado.
Matt Smith | Times-Review featured Burleson manâs capital murder bond set at $1M; No decision on whether to seek death penalty or life
By Matt Smith
msmith@trcle.com Apr 23, 2021
Apr 23, 2021
Jerry Don Elders of Burleson is escorted into the 413th district court on Friday morning.Â
Matt Smith | Times-Review
Five Johnson County Sheriffâs Office bailiffs surrounded Burleson resident Jerry Don Elders on Friday morning as he entered the 413th District courtroom for a short magistration hearing on his capital murder charge.
Elders, 39, has also been charged with aggravated assault against a public servant with a firearm and two counts of possession of a controlled substance. Johnson County Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Ronny McBroom on April 15 set Eldersâ bond at $1 million on the aggravated assault charge, $10,000 on one of the possession charges and no bond on the other.
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Police officers applaud Joshua Lott as he is released from John Peter Smith Hospital.
Burleson police officer Joshua Lott greets his fellow officers as he arrives home from John Peter Smith Hospital.
Joshua Lott, the Burleson police officer who was shot three times on Wednesday, was released from the hospital on Thursday evening.
Multiple police agencies lined the parking lot as he exited John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. A caravan of patrol cars escorted him to his Burleson home.
About 4:15 a.m., Lott made a traffic stop in the 1100 block of Hillside Drive, near Burleson High School.
The stop was made for a defective taillight or brake light, said Burleson Police Chief Billy Cordell.
April 14, 2021 - 4:36 PM
BURLESON, Texas - A man suspected in the shooting of a North Texas police officer during a traffic stop early Wednesday has been arrested, authorities said.
The three occupants of the vehicle involved also are suspected in a carjacking shortly thereafter in which the woman driver was shot dead, police said.
Jerry Don Elders, 39, is suspected of shooting the police officer three times at about 4:15 a.m. Wednesday in Burleson, Texas, about 13 miles (21 kilometres) south of Fort Worth, Burleson police said on Twitter. The Burleson man already had been wanted on two felony drug offence warrants when the shooting happened, said Burleson Police Chief Billy Cordell.