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On February 15, 1971, Rene Guzman and Leonardo Lopez abducted five law enforcement officers in West Dallas, Texas, United States, killing three of them and injuring a fourth at a site near the Trinity River. The fifth deputy was able to escape the shooting uninjured and call for help.
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25- acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
November 5, 2017: 27: Deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. Deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history. 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting: Santa Fe: May 18, 2018: 10: School shooting 2019 El Paso shooting: El Paso: August 3, 2019: 23: Shooting inside a Walmart and its surrounding area. The shooter, 21-year-old ...
On May 13, 2019, an African American woman, Pamela Turner, was shot and killed by a police officer from Baytown, Texas. [1]The incident occurred at a parking lot of an apartment complex where both Turner and Officer Juan Delacruz (of the Baytown Police Department), were living at the time [1] [2] during an attempt to arrest her for outstanding warrants.
The Texas 7 were a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000. Six of the seven were apprehended over a month later, between January 22–24, 2001, as a direct result of the television show America's Most Wanted.
Wikinews has related news: Five police officers killed in Dallas, Texas during sniper attack. On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve Afghan War veteran, was angry over police shootings of black men.
The Main Building of the University of Texas at 12:53 p.m. August 1, 1966. The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public, both within the Main ...
On August 4, 1971, Rhonda Johnson (born December 16, 1956, in Houston, Texas) and Sharon Shaw (born August 11, 1957, in Mobile, Alabama), both of Webster, Texas, spent the day on a Galveston beach, approximately one week before Shaw's fourteenth birthday. [1] [5] The girls were seen leaving the beach, but did not return home. [6]