Austin Bombings: Texas Buying X-Ray Machines To Assist Investigation
AUSTIN, TX (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott today announced an additional release of $265,000 in emergency funding to help assist bombing investigations in Austin after four attacks this month...
View ArticleSkateboarding Teen Hit By Car Dies
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Fort Worth Police said a 16-year-old boy was struck and killed while skateboarding down a hill on a side street Wednesday. It happened shortly before 6:00 p.m. at Riverside...
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Change Of Venue For Ex-Texas Officer Accused In Teen Murder Denied
DALLAS COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – He was a six-year veteran with the Balch Springs Police Department when he shot and killed an unarmed teenager in 2017, today attorneys for Roy Oliver argued his trial...
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Fort Worth Teenager Shot & Killed During Home Invasion
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A teenager was shot and killed early Wednesday morning during a home invasion in east Fort Worth. Authorities were called just after 4:00 a.m. to the scene along Warren Lane,...
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Lawyers: Balch Springs Officer Who Killed Teen Was Protecting His Partner
DALLAS COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – A former North Texas police officer charged with the murder of a teenager in 2017 is in court today. Attorney’s for Roy Oliver went before Judge Brandon Birmingham with a...
View ArticleTrial Begins For Former Balch Springs Officer Accused In Teen Murder
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The jury was called in and the murder trial of former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver began this morning. Oliver shot and killed Jordan Edwards in 2017. The teenager was...
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No More Video: Parents Of Teen Killed By Former Texas Officer Leave Court
DALLAS COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – Odell and Charmaine Edwards slipped out of the courtroom Monday afternoon. They did not want to endure again what no parent should ever witness repeatedly. But what they...
View ArticleAccused Of Murder, Former Balch Springs Officer Roy Oliver Trial Testimony Ends
DALLAS (CBSDFW) – Trial testimony in the murder case against former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver is done. Oliver shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards in 2017. The teenager was in a car...
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Jurors Hear Closing Arguments In Roy Oliver Case
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Jurors in the murder trial of former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver listened to closing arguments from attorneys Monday. Oliver is accused of killing Jordan Edwards, 15,...
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Jury Back At Work Deliberating Fate Of Former North Texas Officer
UPDATE: After nearly 13 hours of deliberations, a Dallas County jury found former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver guilty in the murder of Jordan Edwards. DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – More than 10...
View ArticleConvicted Former Texas Police Officer Back In Court For Sentencing
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – After spending the night in jail, now convicted former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver is back in a Dallas courtroom today, waiting to learn his punishment. On Tuesday,...
View ArticleJordan Edwards: Teammates Remember Murdered Teen on the Field
MESQUITE (CBSDFW.COM) – For those who knew and loved 15 year old Jordan Edwards, sorrow has never been farther than a memory away. “It was almost over the last year and a half kids would catch...
View ArticleVictim’s Family Calls Ex-Texas Officer’s 15-Year Sentence Too Short
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Dallas County jury gave a white former police officer too lenient of a punishment when sentencing him to 15 years for the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager who was...
View ArticleExperts: Unusual Factors In Ex-Texas Officer’s Murder Conviction
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Every case is unique, as is every jury. But experts say several factors seemed to stack up against former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver this week when, in an...
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16-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot In Head During Party At Dallas Apartment
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A 16-year-old girl was fatally shot in the head at a party at a Dallas apartment complex early Sunday morning, police say. A 19-year-old boy was arrested and charged with...
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Crash Involving Students Leaves At Least 1 Dead In Dallas
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A morning rush hour crash in Oak Cliff, near the intersection of South Westmoreland Road and Illinois Avenue, has left at least one teenager dead. Officials with Dallas...
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Outpouring Of Support After North Texas Student Shot To Death
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – High school students filled a neighborhood park in north Fort Worth Tuesday evening, gathering to remember a teenager shot and killed over the weekend. Friends there described...
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Police: Deadly Shooting Of Northlake Teen Appears To Be ‘Tragic Accident’
NORTHLAKE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Northlake Police said a deadly shooting nearly two weeks ago, “appears to be a tragic accident involving subjects handling a loaded weapon.” Police were called to the...
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16-Year-Old Fatally Shot Outside Fort Worth Store
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed Tuesday evening in a parking lot outside of a store in east Fort Worth. Police responded to the shooting near OK Food Mart at 8650...
View ArticlePolice Need Help Finding Person Of Interest In Fatal Shooting Of 16-Year-Old
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – On the evening of February 5 a teenaged boy was shot and killed in a parking lot outside an east Fort Worth store, today police are asking for your help identifying and...
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