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Riser has the right to appeal his firing, the news release said.  Riser has been under investigation since August 2019 when a witness told Dallas police investigators that Riser allegedly offered him thousands of dollars and instructed him to kill two victims in 2017, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. When asked why Riser was left on duty and not placed on administrative leave, former Police Chief Renee Hall told WFAA that at the time the department didn't have enough evidence for an arrest. She also said wrote that putting him on leave “could have compromised the investigation.”...

Dallas police Officer Bryan Riser is fired after internal investigation into accusations of capital murder The expedited internal investigation was a formality to make it unlikely that Riser could get his job back. Dallas Police Chief Eddie García said in a news release Tuesday that he had fired Officer Bryan Riser after an investigation into allegations that Riser ordered the killings of two people. The internal affairs investigation concluded that Riser “engaged in adverse conduct when he was arrested for two counts of Capital Murder,” the release says. Riser, who joined the department...

According to court documents, Ofc. Riser was on the department’s radar two years earlier in connection to his father, Byron Riser, who was convicted of drug distribution.

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...

“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. Then came Thursday’s disturbing new details. “I'm still not settled,” Thomas said. An arrest affi...