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Axios
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Eddie Garcia's possible comeback
Former Dallas police chief Eddie Garcia, who left last year to become an assistant city manager in Austin, is now vying for the top cop job in Fort Worth. Why it matters: Fort Worth is Texas' fourth largest city and the country's 11th largest, per the latest Census Bureau figures. The city's next police chief will be tasked with implementing public safety policies, maintaining the public's trust and weighing relationships with other agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Driving the news: Garcia is a finalist for the Fort Worth chief, as are interim chief Robert Alldredge Jr., former Dallas deputy chief Vernon Hale III and Los Angeles deputy chief Emada Tingirides, the city announced Tuesday. State of play: The Fort Worth Police Department has around 1,900 officers and 574 professional staff members and often has to compete with other nearby departments for recruits. Zoom in: Tingirides is the only woman finalist. She has spent 30 years with LAPD and was first lady Michelle Obama's guest at the 2015 State of the Union. Alldredge has spent 26 years at the Fort Worth Police Department and has served in almost all of the department's major divisions. Hale left Dallas after a 26-year career to become Galveston's police chief in 2018. He is now an assistant police chief in Prince George's County, Maryland. Garcia has spent over 30 years in public safety, including a stint as president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association. He called himself a " blue collar chief" in Dallas and was popular among the rank-and-file and city leaders. The intrigue: Dallas officials tried holding on to Garcia, but he left to work for Austin city manager TC Broadnax, who used to be Dallas' city manager. What we're wondering: What sparked Garcia's interest in returning to North Texas and policing, just months after leaving for Austin.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Dallas, Fort Worth Police Ready Ahead of ‘No Kings Day' Mobilization
Police in Dallas and Fort Worth are preparing for this weekend's protests against President Donald Trump. Left-wing activists are planning nationwide protests against Trump June 14, dubbed 'No Kings Day.' Various demonstrations will take place across the DFW metroplex. As The Dallas Express previously reported, this comes on the heels of violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and Dallas. Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker told The Dallas Express she has 'full faith' in the Fort Worth Police Department to manage the 'No Kings Day' protest this Saturday. She said, 'the city has been coordinating with state and federal agencies to allow for peaceful protests but upholding law and order in our community.' Fort Worth Police will be monitoring the protests, said Officer Cynthia Wood in an email to The Dallas Express. 'The Fort Worth Police Department is working closely with our community and our Intelligence Fusion Center to monitor all activity during any peaceful protests that may take place in the City of Fort Worth,' Wood said. The Dallas Police Department's 'main priority' is the safety of people who 'live, work, and visit' the city, according to a statement Lt. Tramese Jones provided to The Dallas Express. 'The Department will not interfere with a lawful and peaceful assembly of any individuals or groups expressing their First Amendment rights,' Jones said. 'Participants will see our patrols as they always do at large events.' The Dallas Express asked for more specific details, but Jones said, 'we do not release that information for operational reasons.' 'No King's Day' protests are scheduled for June 14 in downtown Dallas and Fort Worth, according to an online event map. The left-wing demonstrations are also set to take place in Arlington, Burleson, Denton, Euless, Flower Mound, Frisco, McKinney, and Sanger. The Indivisible Project, a powerful left-wing network, is working with other prominent progressive advocacy groups to sponsor 'No Kings' protests across the nation June 14. The group has boosted similar protest movements earlier this year, providing things like 'infrastructure to get the campaign off the ground,' according to The Federalist. As The Dallas Express previously reported, Indivisible was funded in part by George Soros' Open Society Foundations. Indivisible's Fort Worth chapter targeted Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare and County Commissioners Matt Krause and Manny Ramirez in a post on Bluesky. 'Black, Brown, White, queer, immigrant, working class. We rise together! We're done w leaders who divide us. WE run the show. Not the likes of Tim O'Hare, Manny Ramirez, and Matt Krause, trying to build their MAGA safehaven.' 'Peaceful demonstrations are a constitutional right as long as they don't escalate into violence, rioting and lawlessness like what we've seen in California. That type of behavior will not be tolerated in Tarrant County,' O'Hare said to The Dallas Express. 'I have full confidence in the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office and all our local police departments that law and order will be maintained. Tarrant County has earned its reputation as a safe place to live, and we intend to keep it that way.' The 'No Kings' protests are partnering with groups including 50501, which – as The Dallas Express previously reported – targeted the metroplex with demonstrations earlier this year. Other prominent groups include the ACLU, Bernie Sanders and his group Our Revolution, Move On of the Tesla Takedown protests, and May Day Strong of the recent May Day protests. Organizers are coordinating the protests through the left-wing platform Mobilize America. As The Federalist previously reported, Mobilize falls under Bonterra – which was launched by the London-based private firm Apax Partners, and which also oversees the Democrat Party's comprehensive voter database. The Dallas Express reached out to 'No Kings,' but the group did not comment in time for publication.
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Fort Worth Shooting: One Dead, Two Injured In Memorial Day Homicide
The Fort Worth Police Department is investigating a murder after a shooter killed one victim and wounded two others on Memorial Day weekend. Police officers responded to a shooting call in the Fairhaven neighborhood of southeast Fort Worth on May 25, according to a press release. Detectives found a shooter had wounded three victims, one of whom later died. When officers responded to the area near 4200 Carmel Ave. at 3:18 p.m., they found a victim with 'at least one gunshot wound,' according to the release. First responders took the victim to a nearby hospital 'where he was pronounced deceased.' The victim who died after the shooting is 21-year-old Alvion Ferrell Norris, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner. He died at 4:04 p.m. in the 'hospital ER' of 'multiple gunshot wounds.' His manner of death has been labeled a 'homicide.' Detectives reported the shooting victims were 'in a parked car' when the suspect approached the vehicle and 'had a brief conversation with them,' according to the release. 'The suspect produced a handgun and shot into the vehicle striking all three victims,' the release reads. The victim who later died – now identified as Norris – 'exited the vehicle to run away but collapsed a short distance from the vehicle.' The suspect then fled the scene on foot. The two other victims 'drove themselves to a local hospital' for treatment of their wounds, according to the release. 'Their condition is unknown at this time.' The Fort Worth Police Department's Homicide Unit is investigating the killing. The Dallas Police Department investigated three murders that took place across the city during Memorial Day weekend, as The Dallas Express reported at the time. Fort Worth police also investigated two shooting deaths the previous week after arguments turned violent.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Cornyn, Welch introduce the Carla Walker Act to help solve cold cases
May 22—WASHINGTON U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Peter Welch (D-VT) on Thursday introduced the Carla Walker Act, which would dedicate existing federal grant funds to support forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) DNA analysis and help solve previously unsolvable cold cases. The bill is named for Carla Walker, a Fort Worth native whose murderer was finally identified 46 years after her death with the help of this advanced technology. "Fort Worth native Carla Walker was abducted in a bowling alley and tragically murdered in 1974, but it took more than four decades and the advent of forensic genetic genealogy DNA analysis for her killer to be identified and brought to justice," said Sen. Cornyn. "I am proud to have authored this legislation, which would make this cutting-edge DNA testing technology more widely available to law enforcement so they can better identify and prosecute offenders, solve cold cases, and bring closure to victims' families." "Advancements in forensic DNA technology have revolutionized our ability to combat crime. In Vermont, detectives were able to use forensic genetic genealogy analysis to help provide answers to a family who thought they might never come. We've also seen how this technology can be a powerful tool in giving those wrongly accused a chance to clear their names," said Sen. Welch. "Our bipartisan bill will help investigators across the country harness the incredible power of FGG technology to crack cold cases and deliver justice to countless victims and families, and I'm thankful for Senator Cornyn's leadership on it." U.S. Congressman Wesley Hunt (TX-38) is leading companion legislation in the House of Representatives. Background: Typically, when a suspect's identity is unknown, a crime laboratory uploads the genetic material recovered from a crime scene into the FBI's national database to search for DNA matches between the forensic sample and any known offenders. While this traditional form of forensic DNA profiling only examines 13-20 Short tandem repeat (STR) DNA markers, forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) technology examines over half a million Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) that span the entirety of the human genome. It does so by cross-referencing shared blocks of SNP markers to identify relatives of the genetic profile by uncovering shared blocks of DNA. This enables criminal investigators to build family trees that ultimately help determine the sample's identity and solve cases. Carla Walker was abducted from a bowling alley parking lot in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 17, 1974. Her body was found three days later in a drainage ditch 30 minutes south of Fort Worth. The Fort Worth Police Department was able to collect a few forensic samples and clothing items from the crime scene, but law enforcement could not solve the murder due to limited forensic technology at the time. Carla's brother, Jim Walker, never stopped searching for answers and nearly 50 years later, FGG DNA analysis was conducted on the last remaining DNA on a piece of Walker's clothing, which led to a successful DNA match with the McCurley family and ultimately identified Glen McCurley, Jr. as the killer, who confessed in 2021 and died in prison on July 14, 2023. Sen. Cornyn's Carla Walker Act would create a pilot program to make this cutting-edge FGG DNA analysis more widely available to investigative agencies to: — Aid in resolving previously unsolvable cold cases; — Assist in the identification of criminals; — Seek justice for previously unidentified victims; — Help exonerate wrongly accused suspects; — And bring closure for the victims' loved ones.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
Fort Worth police searching for missing 18-year-old autistic woman
Fort Worth police are asking for the public's help locating a missing 18-year-old autistic woman, according to a post on the department's Facebook page. Maricella Denise Gray was last seen in the 2300 block of Yucca Avenue in Fort Worth around 1 p.m. Tuesday, police said. Gray is a Black female, is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and has black hair and brown eyes, according to the post. She was last seen wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, black pants, black-rimmed glasses and carrying a black backpack. Anyone with information about Gray should call the Fort Worth Police Department at 817-392-4222, officials said.
