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-snip- According to TDJC, Hernandez was released on parole for aggravated robbery on October 21, 2021, with a special condition of electronic monitoring. TDCJ also confirmed that Hernandez was "granted permission to be at the hospital with his significant other during delivery [of her child]." According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by WFAA, Hernandez went to the hospital to visit his girlfriend, who had given birth to their child. The warrant stated that Hernandez then began "acting strangely" and accused his girlfriend of cheating on him. The suspect started searching the room to see if anyone else was in...

<p>DALLAS — Dallas police are investigating a potential hate crime after a transgender woman was mobbed and beaten at an east Oak Cliff apartment complex Friday.</p> <p>The incident happened in the daytime on Friday, but police didn't interview the woman until around 11:23 p.m., when she was in a Dallas-area hospital, police said.</p>

The guy wearing the red bandanna didn’t mess around. Measuring, cutting and hammering away, he made sure the siding was just right for the new house in Oak Cliff. Nothing like having a seasoned leader on the job. Former President Jimmy Carter didn’t let a little heat and his age (90) get in the way Wednesday morning at the house on Exeter Avenue.

DALLAS – Three cars were set on fire in Oak Cliff overnight, the third time in less than a month that arsonists have targeted vehicles in neighborhoods south of Interstate 30. -snip-

Daughter held in deadly fire Dad, girlfriend killed in blaze after fight at Oak Cliff complex 03/02/2003 By CONNIE PILOTO and JAIME JORDAN / The Dallas Morning News Two people were killed in a fire early Saturday after a 29-year-old woman doused her father with a flammable liquid and then chased him into their apartment "with what appeared to be a lit cigarette lighter," said homicide Sgt. Ross Salverino. Neighbors in the southeast Oak Cliff complex told police there was a flash, then they saw 52-year-old Carl W. Burton leap in flames from a second-story window. As the fire...

3 wounded in shootout during armored car robbery 09/05/2002 By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Robbers wearing hard hats confronted an armored car guard outside a central Oak Cliff bank Wednesday, causing a shootout in the parking lot that left three people wounded. The guard, a bank customer and one of at least two robbery suspects were shot in the gunbattle just before noon at the State Bank of Texas, 4575 South R.L. Thornton Freeway, officials said. The guard and the customer suffered leg wounds and were treated for minor injuries at hospitals, officials said. One suspect...

Family demands justice for accused They cite 'no excuses' for man charged in slaying of wife, kids 08/08/2002 By FRANK TREJO / The Dallas Morning News Still reeling from the loss of five family members, relatives of the victims in a weekend shooting spree spoke out Wednesday to express bewilderment at the tragedy and to ask for justice. "What he did, there can be no excuses for," Mireya Alvizo said of her brother-in-law Abel Ochoa, who is charged in the shooting. "He can't blame anything for what happened. The children what kind of fault would they have in this?...

Brother: Drugs to blame in shooting Relative says man accused of killing family was addicted to crack 08/07/2002 By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Abel Ochoa went to church Sunday and spent the afternoon with his family. Then he smoked crack cocaine in the back yard of his home before a shooting spree that left his wife, two daughters and two in-laws dead, Mr. Ochoa's brother said Tuesday. Gabriel Ochoa said his brother had long battled an addiction to crack and had tried to kick the habit "but just couldn't." By phone from the Lew Sterrett Justice...

Shooting victims' family says suspect was abusive Dark image emerges of man held in killing of wife, 2 kids, in-laws 08/06/2002 By ROBERT THARP and JENNIFER EMILY / The Dallas Morning News Cecilia Ochoa had confided to her sisters about her rocky relationship with her husband, Abel Ochoa, and his "controlling and abusive" personality, police said Monday. Police, who say Mr. Ochoa killed his wife, his two young children, father-in-law and sister-in-law at the family's central Oak Cliff home Sunday, were still lacking a motive. But they said a darker image of the 29-year-old unemployed truck driver is emerging....