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Dallas Police have detained a 19-year-old suspect in connection to a teenager's drowning at Lake Ray Hubbard this past April.Lake Ray Hubbard drowning arrestDallas Police arrested 19-year-old Lucas Roper on July 9. He's been charged with one count of tampering with physical evidence.Roper was arrested in connection to the Apr. 13 drowning of 18-year-old Daniel Erving at Lake Ray Hubbard.Erving's body was discovered on Apr. 17, four days after he drowned.An arrest affidavit states that after Erving drowned, Roper and a juvenile suspect threw Erving's clothes into the tree line near a bridge above Lake Ray Hubbard.Police also learned the two suspects fled the scene in Roper's vehicle. As they fled, the juvenile suspect threw Erving's phone out of the vehicle.The Rowlett Police Department later recovered Erving's clothes and cell phone, on which they located phone calls and messages between Roper and Erving from the day of the drowning.According to the affidavit, Roper told police that he
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A North Texas man will serve over a decade in prison for injuring three people in a hate-crime shooting in 2022.On June 30, 41-year-old Jeremy Theron Smith pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for his role in a 2022 shooting at a hair salon off of Royal Lane in Dallas.He received a 15-year prison sentence as part of a plea deal. The aggravated assault was considered a hate crime, and carried the potential for life in prison.Smith admitted in court last week his bias against Asian-owned businesses, and specifically targeted them in the 2022 incident.On May 11, 2022, Smith opened fire at Hair World Salon on Royal Lane in Northwest Dallas.Three women were injured in the shooting. All three survived their injuries.Smith's plea deal also linked him to two other shootings in 2022 that targeted Asian-owned businesses. No one was hurt in either one of those shootings.Smith had also been fired from his previous job for assaulting his Asian boss.Investigators say Smith's gir
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More details have been released in the case of a Plano Independent School District teacher who is accused of sexually abusing a second grader at Brinker Elementary School.Plano ISD teacher arrestedPolice arrested 64-year-old Paul Campbell on Wednesday and charged him with the continuous sexual abuse of a child.Campbell was a second-grade teacher at Brinker Elementary School in Plano ISD, and police said the alleged abuse happened at the school.The victim, an 8-year-old girl, reportedly told her parents about inappropriate physical contact that happened multiple times over the past school year. The investigation began once the student's parents contacted the police over the July 4 holiday weekend.According to an arrest warrant affidavit, there were at least two victims who said Campbell touched them between their legs when they visited his desk to ask a question.The first said it happened throughout the year. Campbell would rub her through her clothing while answering her question.She t
