The suspected gunman in a Navarro County murder-suicide that left five people dead, including a 4-year-old boy, had previously served jail time in Dallas for resisting arrest and had a history of violence toward his family, court records show. Kevin James Milazzo, 40, is suspected in the deaths of four family members who were killed early Saturday. The victims were identified as Hunter Freeman, 4, the son of Milazzo’s ex-girlfriend; Joshua Milazzo, 21, Milazzo’s son; Connie Mimms, 61, Milazzo’s mother; and William Mimms, 68, Milazzo’s stepfather. Three other people were injured in the incident. Their names were not released and their conditions…
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Nearly 150 Plano city workers removed more than 250 fallen trees and tree limbs during last week’s winter storm, the city stated in a Facebook post. The crews included members of the city public works and parks and recreation departments. They worked nonstop in the freezing cold from 6 p.m. Wednesday through Friday evening, the city said. In addition to tree and tree limb removal, the crews worked for 36 hours to apply a sand and salt mix to streets and facilities, according to the Facebook post. They also helped maintain water operations and sewer lift stations during below-freezing temperatures. The…
One person was killed in a shooting at a shopping center in Arlington on Saturday afternoon. Officers were called around 2:25 p.m. to the 4000 block of South Cooper Street and found two men lying on the ground, police said. A 31-year-old man whose name was not released was pronounced dead at the scene. The second man, a 29-year-old, was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. On Sunday, police arrested 20-year-old Jacob LaTravis Yi in the man’s death. Yi faces a murder charge, an aggravated assault charge, and a charge of possession of a firearm by a felon. Yi…
Hundreds gathered at Antioch Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Oak Cliff on Sunday to celebrate renaming a street after Karry D. Wesley, the church’s founding pastor, who died in 2019. A portion of Kirnwood Drive near the church, from South Hampton Road to Indian Ridge Trail, will be known as Dr. KD Wesley Way. Wesley should be remembered for his dedication to serving others, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price said Sunday during a ceremony at the church. “Dr. Wesley was about community,” he said. “These individuals who have been on the ground not just preaching shelter but building shelter,…
Wheelice Wilson Jr., known to friends as “Mr. Coppell” because of his lifelong efforts to promote theater and history in his hometown, died Feb. 2. He was 74. Wilson, nicknamed Pete, taught at Coppell High School for 36 years and launched the drama department there. He also helped start Theatre Coppell, a community theatre group he led since 1987. The group first performed at the high school, but eventually the city allowed the group to use an old fire station. The group now performs in a “black box” theater named the Wheelice Wilson, Jr. Theatre, part of the $22 million…
DENTON — As the North Texas ice melted from last week’s winter blast, Beto O’Rourke on Sunday continued his effort to put the heat on Gov. Greg Abbott for his handling of the 2021 storm that left millions without power and killed more than 240 people. “The people of Texas understand the failure in leadership,” O’Rourke told The Dallas Morning News. “When we see reporting that tells us that the primary causes for the outage last year have yet to be fixed, like the gas supply, we all know that more changes need to be made, and it looks like we’re not going to…
The 22-year-old Black man who was killed by police during a search warrant operation in Minneapolis early last Wednesday had planned to move to Dallas and start a music career, according to his family. Amir Locke was fatally shot when members of the Minneapolis SWAT team stormed into Bolero Flats Apartment Homes before 7 a.m. Wednesday while executing a “no-knock” search warrant. Locke was not named in the warrant, according to his family’s attorneys, and the warrant was being executed on behalf of St. Paul police, who were searching for a homicide suspect. Locke had a gun in his hand when…
DeSoto, Dallas and Grand Prairie police are conducting a large-scale search and rescue mission for a woman who has been missing since early Sunday. Yi Chan, 25, was last seen by her family between midnight and 1 a.m. in the 500 block of Olympia Street in DeSoto. Her family told police that she left home in a “depressed state” and that they feared for her safety. Dallas police found Chan’s car with the keys inside on Mountain Creek Parkway on Sunday morning. After hearing the family’s concerns about her mental health, the three departments launched a land, air and water…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man died early Sunday morning in the Greater Third Ward area after his van caught on fire, according to the Houston Fire Department. Officials said firefighters were dispatched at about 6 a.m. to Tierwester Street. A witness told authorities they saw a candle burning on the van’s dashboard at about 10 p.m. Saturday. The man was later identified as 66-year-old Michael Williams. People who live nearby told that his relatives offered a room at their home for him to stay warm, but Williams declined. Authorities said Williams knew the family who lived in the house…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Over the last couple of mornings, meteorologist Kevin Roth has received some great photos of frost flowers from Eyewitness News viewer, Terry Rutt, in Stagecoach. While they are undeniably beautiful, you might have some questions about what a frost flower is, and how it forms. Frost flowers form on days when the air temperature has dipped below freezing, but the ground temperature remains slightly above the freezing mark. The ground naturally stays warmer than the air, so the root system of plants can stay active even in freezing weather, pumping water through the stem of the…
