A high school trainer was shot by Kimball High School student from Dallas Schools in San Antonio while the team was there ahead of the UIL Boys State Basketball Tournament today.
The firearm was in a player’s bag when it accidentally discharged. The unnamed player has been arrested and the student trainer was rushed to a local hospital for surgery.
Accidentally Shot By Kimball High School Student
This is not the first firearms incident in Dallas this year.
Dallas Fire Rescue‘s Firefighter-Paramedic Brad Cox not charged after kicking a man in the head on body camera.
Dallas Police have not responded to our inquiry about how the Public Integrity Unit came to the decision not to charge Cox given the graphic video evidence of him kicking a defenseless man on the ground multiple times before punching him.
Brad Cox Not Charged, But Terminated
Dallas police officer Melvin Williams was placed on administrative leave last year after assaulting a bystander in Deep Ellum. Like Williams, Cox had a personnel history of disciplinary actions related to anger management.
Cox’s LinkedIn profile shows he has fifteen years experience as an MMA fighter and still employed by Dallas Fire Rescue.
Dallas residents were rightfully concerned by Dallas weather conditions Wednesday afternoon with ice pending, but Dallas City Attorney Chris Caso chose Wednesday afternoon for its Dallas data loss media drop saying Erin Nealy Cox’s report was submitted and going to members of City Council.
The firm’s report, findings, and recommendations were made available to the City Council in a closed session during today’s council meeting.
Dallas Data Loss Media Drop
Erin Nealy Cox took over an independent investigation into the city IT losses which deleted millions of police files used in criminal prosecutions.
Nealy Cox is the former US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas and was recommended by Dallas officials hoping to find answers to the data loss jeopardizing upwards of 17,000 criminal cases.
Neither Cox, nor Kirkland&Ellis, nor the City of Dallas have responded to questions about the investigation, but there are at least two allegations we have learned about involving a coverup of federal housing dollars in South Dallas and past and present members of City Council.
The report next goes to the Ad Hoc Committee on General Investigating and Ethics on Tuesday, March 1. The report will be made public this week in advance of the committee meeting. That committee is led by Cara Mendelsohn, District 12.
A woman was attacked by Trump supporters on Ervay Street. Witnesses said the attackers had neo-Nazi markings on their vehicle, but this was not verified.
These and other events with far right conspiracy theorists have created cause for concern among local minority groups.
The Dallas Police First Amendment policy appears to be make it up as you go.
On Wednesday, local newshound Avi Adelman posted he got a tip about a shooting in East Dallas and went to the scene.
As noted in his Facebook post, an officer stopped him – a freelance member of the local media community from approaching – despite other civilians being in the immediate area.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit arrested Adelman several years ago for photographing an incident in the public eye which cost taxpayers a six figure settlement due to that officer’s aggressiveness.
Public Information Officers for Dallas Police initially stated they “will work on it” when asked why officers had responded as they did. In a follow up, another PIO provided a copy of the Department General Order, but also would not answer what training failures existed on the issue of First Amendment civil rights.
Dallas Police Academy has a history of problems including Lieutenant Brian William Deininger, an officer assigned to teach Field Sobriety training, but who was found unresponsive in his car slurring his words when police and EMS showed up in Irving, Texas.
Dallas Police First Amendment Policy
The Dallas Police force appears to be shizophrenic on the issue of civil rights protections.
In summer 2020, officers actively assaulted civilian protestors and bystanders during the George Floyd protests locally. More recently, they have allowed far right, white protestors to disrupt the school day at Dallas ISD’s Dealey Montessori campus.
Additionally, the Dallas Police Department is not responding to public information requests blaming COVID19 – another transparency issue in a department with increasing problems relating to the public they “serve” while also hiding crime data from citizens, crime watch groups, and journalists.
On Wednesday, December 29, a Directive to Apprehend was obrained about disseminated to the public.
Garland Police Statement
Detectives have discovered evidence identifying Abel Elias Acosta as the shooter responsible for killing three and wounding a fourth at a convenience store on December 26, 2021.
It is typically not the practice of the Garland Police Department to release juvenile information, but due to the nature of the offense and potential risk to the public, the court has authorized the release of his information.
Detectives obtained a Directive to Apprehend Abel Elias Acosta, age fourteen (14). Abel is facing the charge of Capital Murder for the shooting death of the three teenagers.
A Directive to Apprehend is defined by Texas Family Code, 52.015 as: a) On the request of a law enforcement or probation officer, a juvenile court may issue a directive to apprehend a child if the court finds there is probable cause to take the child into custody under the provisions of this title.
Abel Elias Acosta is described as a light-skinned Hispanic male with dark hair, brown eyes, approximately 5’ 05” in height, and weighing around 125 pounds.
A Texaco was the site of a Garland shooting yesterday where four were shot and three killed by what appears to be a teenage gunman.
Garland police released a video of the teen opening fire inside the Texaco station on Walnut Lane in Garland Sunday evening.
Garland Shooting Details
Police said the teenage male got out of the passenger side of a pickup truck and walked up to the front door. Police say he fired at least twenty times into the store before returning to the truck and leaving.
The victims were teenagers between fourteen and seventeen years of age.
Police said two of the victims came to the store together. The Dallas County Medical Examiner identified them as 15-year-old Ivan Noyola and 17-year-old Rafael Garcia.
Chief Bryan said investigators still trying to determine if this was a targeted attack.
“It’s difficult for me, for my officers and for my community because we want to know why we don’t have an answer to why we’re trying to comprehend this, and we don’t yet comprehend this. But we have a job to do,” he told members of the media.
The youngest victim was fourteen year old Xavier Gonzales who was ordering tacos for his family when the shooting happened.
The shooting comes just over a week after a nationwide school shooting “challenge” that went viral on Tik Tok.
Across the nation police departments and school districts are warning about school shooting threats happening after a Tik Tok challenge has gone viral. Dallas Independent School District is noticably quiet despite numerous recent issues with violance in the area and district.
Local School Shooting Threats And Situations
Within Dallas ISD proper a firearm was recently found on an elemetary student en route to Marshall Prep Academy. That situation became known when a letter went home to Chapel Hill parents.
Also, within Dallas, there have been ongoing protests at Dealey Montessori which started in September in response to mask mandates. Prior to an October protest organized by the Chief Culture Officer at The Gents Place a blog post went up on a male hair salon’s website asking which is better: the AK47 or M16.
Issues at Dealey have continued to escalate while staff at Dealey have normalizedthe protestors behavior and Dallas Police Department officers have gone out of their way to protect white protestors in ways they did not during the George Floyd protests.
The Dallas Police Department is shocked tonight as DPD loses Qualified Immunity in the case involving the death of Tony Timpa.
On Wednesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled that Dallas police officers violated a mentally ill man’s constitutional rights when they pinned him to the ground for fourteen minutes and that they might be liable for his death.
DPD Loses Qualified Immunity: Start Of Trend?
It is unclear if the Timpa decision will lead to others.
In the June 2020 George Floyd protests, Dallas officers injured numerous protestors leading to an After Action Report with a number of excuses, but no blame.
In addition to assaulting protestors, several bystanders were injured also.
