He’s been victimized in the past, so this time when thieves broke in, Kendrick Dickson was prepared: Video still from CBS
Here’s the part where we round up news stories that touch our neighborhood, from a variety of media outlets. No funny stuff this week. Unfortunately, it’s all about crime. Awareness is protection, though, so read on …
Neighborhood resident Kendrick Dickson shot an intruder, according to a CBS news report. He was sleeping when he heard someone breaking in. He grabbed his rifle and hit one of two trespassers — both ran, and one left a trail of blood. Police tracked down the injured suspect at a nearby hospital. His partner is still at large.
We’re regularly reporting on recent robberies in the Lake Highlands area (see Suspects caught, Robberies continue and our post about “Apple picking,” a burgeoning crime trend), and we noted yesterday that police are offering informational neighborhood meetings. Newsman Jeff Paul’s report shows a White Rock Elementary school cafeteria packed with people taking them up on said offer. Some 200 people turned out, including Liz Surles, who we interviewed earlier in the week. She shared her terrifying experience, saying she is “still scared of her own shadow.”
Another young man has been murdered in our area, police say. The Dallas Morning News’ Robert Wilonsky reports on the mysterious death of an unidentified 19-year-old black male who was found inside an apartment at Royal and Abrams. Because identification has been a problem and family members might not have been notified, the media has been asked to temporarily withhold name of the victim.
That adds to the growing number of murders across Dallas this summer. The News last month published a feature story about the recent proliferation of this most violent of crimes. “The seemingly daily killings [in June] threw the city off another historically low murder pace and has left the department’s 14 homicide detectives scrambling,” Tristan Hallman reports. “Every murder concerns us,” Assistant Chief Randy Blankenbaker of the investigations bureau told the reporter.
