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Dallas police officer charged with two counts of capital murder is fired

DALLAS (AP) — A lawyer for the Dallas police officer arrested in an alleged...

Bryan Riser was charged last week with two counts of capital murder. AP Photo DALLAS: A Dallas police officer who was recently charged in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme was under investigation for longer than authorities have previously acknowledged, sharpening questions about why he continued to patrol the city as his colleagues looked into whether he was involved in a 2017 killing. After Bryan Riser was arrested on Thursday, former Dallas police Chief U Renee Hall said he was "first identified as a person of interest in 2019" and was kept on the job to avoid tipping him off to the inve...

As more details come out about Bryan Riser, the Dallas cop accused of ordering the deaths of two people in 2017, more questions arise too. One question Mayor Eric Johnson is itching to have answered is, “Why did Riser remain on active duty while considered a person of interest in connection with two murders?” Johnson formed an ad hoc committee Monday to get to the bottom of that question. There has been some confusion surrounding this particular detail. Investigators allege that Riser ordered the kidnapping and killing of two people in 2017, Albert Douglas and Liza Saenz. According to t...

Dallas police Officer Bryan Riser, who was arrested on two capital murder charges last week, patrolled the streets of Dallas for several years — even as authorities were looking into him and his father, Byron “Blue” Riser, in connection with one of the killings in 2017, records obtained by The Dallas Morning News show. Thirty-year-old Liza Saenz was murdered in March 2017, and her body was dumped in the Trinity River. Three men were arrested in the case. One of them told investigators in August 2019 that DPD officer Riser had ordered the killings, according to an arrest warrant affidav...