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1 week ago | 
gazettextra.com | Kelli J. Smith
DALLAS - Dallas' next police chief is Daniel Comeaux, a federal law enforcement leader from Houston who has specialized in drug enforcement for three decades. City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert announced Friday that Comeaux beat four other finalists, including interim Chief Michael Igo, to become the Dallas Police Department's 31st leader. His selection caps a three-month national search to replace former Chief Eddie García, a popular official who left last year for Austin city management.
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1 month ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Kelli J. Smith
By Kelli Smith, The Dallas Morning News DALLAS - Dallas officials are considering five people as the contenders for the city's next police chief - including a North Texas chief, two commanders already inside the department and two people with federal law enforcement experience. The city of Dallas released a list Friday of finalists vying to become the 31st chief of the Dallas Police Department following the departure of Eddie García.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Kelli J. Smith
By Kelli Smith, The Dallas Morning News DALLAS - More than 30 years ago, a fourth grade classroom devolved when a student got out of hand, cursing at the teacher and throwing furniture. A boy named Darron Burks stunned the class when he suddenly stood to address him.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Kelli J. Smith |Jamie Landers |Amber Gaudet |Aria Jones
DALLAS — A Dallas police officer was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting Thursday night in southeast Oak Cliff, multiple police officials told The Dallas Morning News. Darron Burks, 46, was fatally wounded in the gunfire, his mother, Cherie Jeffrey, told The News when reached by phone Friday morning. Jeffrey said she was notified by officers at her home. Burks was a former school teacher who had just completed police training.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
hastingstribune.com | Kelli J. Smith |Jamie Landers
By Kelli Smith and Jamie Landers - The Dallas Morning News (TNS) DALLAS - In the cramped room of a police substation, dozens of officers peered at a television as surveillance footage of an apartment complex in Dallas' Love Field neighborhood played out. "This is a known dope area," an officer barked out to cops from tactical units, including SWAT. "They have fentanyl, cocaine and meth."Copyright 2024 Tribune Content Agency.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Kelli Smith |Kelli J. Smith
By Kelli Smith, The Dallas Morning News Andrea Liliana Araujo and her husband, Pedro Ortega, said in a Dallas County lawsuit filed Tuesday that the gunman who opened fire Oct. 14 at Fair Park passed directly through a security screening checkpoint with a semi-automatic pistol in his hoodie, according to their attorney. Araujo, 41, was working with a cleaning crew at the fair when she was shot.
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May 7, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Kelli J. Smith |Jamie Landers
By Kelli Smith and Jamie Landers, The Dallas Morning News DALLAS - Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice is suspected in an assault that injured a man in downtown Dallas, law enforcement officials told The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday. Officers were dispatched about 2:30 a.m. Monday to a nightclub in the 600 block of North Harwood Street, near Federal Street, for reports of an assault, a police spokesperson confirmed.
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May 7, 2024 | 
kdhnews.com | Kelli J. Smith |Jamie Landers
DALLAS — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice is suspected in an assault that injured a man in downtown Dallas, law enforcement officials told The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday. Officers were dispatched about 2:30 a.m. Monday to a nightclub in the 600 block of North Harwood Street, near Federal Street, for reports of an assault, a police spokesperson confirmed. A man was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries, the spokesperson said.
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May 7, 2024 | 
gazettextra.com | Kelli J. Smith |Jamie Landers
DALLAS — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice is suspected in an assault that injured a man in downtown Dallas, law enforcement officials told The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday. Officers were dispatched about 2:30 a.m. Monday to a nightclub in the 600 block of North Harwood Street, near Federal Street, for reports of an assault, a police spokesperson confirmed. kAmp >2? H2D E2<6? E@ E96 9@DA:E2= H:E9 ?@? =:76\E9C62E6?:?8 :?;FC:6D[ E96 DA@<6DA6CD@?
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May 4, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Jamie Landers |Kelli J. Smith
ALLEN, Texas - Allen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd was only minutes into a funeral service at the McKinney ISD football stadium when a text from his wife lit up his phone. She heard there was a shooting at Allen Premium Outlets. Was it real? Boyd was surrounded by first responders who had come together the afternoon of May 6 to pay respects to one of their own: Capt. James "Bull" Graham of the McKinney Fire Department, who was killed in an off-duty crash three days before.
