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A man in McKinney was arrested after authorities said he fired a shotgun toward a McKinney police officer responding to reports of gunfire at an apartment complex late Friday night.According to a press release from the department, McKinney officers were called to the Gray Branch Apartments in the 1700 block of North Ridge Road at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday after receiving multiple 911 dispatch calls reporting shots fired.25-year-old Alexis Calderon fired a shotgun in the direction of a responding officer before retreating into an apartment. Officers established a perimeter and communicated with Calderon, who surrendered a short time later without further incident.According to police, the detectives later executed a search warrant at the apartment and recovered multiple firearms, ammunition and spent shell casing.Calderon was booked into the Collin County Detention Facility on a charge of aggravated assault against a public servant, a first-degree felony. No officers or members of the pu
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Investigators from the Arlington Police Department and the FBI Dallas Field Office have made an arrest in connection to a 2012 cold case murder in Arlington.2012 Arlington murder arrestPublic records show Mayra Velasquez was arrested on July 16. Velasquez has been charged with capital murder in connection to a Jan. 2012 incident. Public records show that Velasquez is a real estate agent with Pure Realtors, LLC. Her license is currently still active. Pure Realtors did not respond to FOX 4's request for comment.She is being held without bond.Arlington Police and the FBI Dallas Field Office confirmed Velasquez had been arrested in connection to the 2012 murder of 32-year-old Irasema Chavez.Chavez was found dead at her apartment in the 2700 block of S. Collins Street on Jan. 20, 2012. She had been stabbed 100 times.In 2012, Arlington Police released surveillance footage from the night before Chavez's murder to help identify a person seen entering the apartment, but were unable to identify
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Dallas Police detectives are on the hunt for serial robbery suspects in East Oak Cliff that have burglarized the same convenience store three times since June 20.Oak Cliff serial robbersDallas Police believe the same two suspects have been robbing Friendly Food Mart, located at 2200 Cedar Crest Boulevard in East Oak Cliff.The convenience store has been robbed a total of three times since June: first on June 20, second on June 26, and third on July 9.The incidents have happened as the store closes for the night, with the masked suspects brandishing AR-15-style weapons and forcing the cashier to open the register and take money out.A security guard was placed inside the store following the first two robberies, but she too was robbed of her firearm during the third burglary.Nobody has been physically assaulted during any of the three robberies.Dallas Police investigation"Everyone in the area is scared. This whole community, and the workers, are terrified of closing up every night, and the
