As people cautiously reemerged from shuttered homes in 2021, North Texas experienced an abundance of high-profile crimes that jolted communities. Though...
Cash Gernon was one of the youngest victims of a homicide in North Texas this year.in southwestern Dallas. His alleged assailant, Darriynn Brown, is accused of kidnapping the boy from his crib where he slept next to his twin brother and taking him to a nearby trail to kill him. Surveillance video from Cash’s bedroomMonica Sherrod, who had dated the twins’ father and was caring for them at her family’s home, identified the man in the footage as Brown, 18, who lived nearby.
— during the July Fourth holiday, including a 61-year-old man who police say was killed after someone lost $7 in a poker game. In a shooting near Lake Highlands’ Hamilton Park, six people were struck by gunfire, three of them fatally: Alvin Ray Murray II, 22; Hassan Blazer, 19; and Mi’quarius Alexander, 17.
John Kentreal Hightower, 19, was fatally struck in a separate shooting, and two children and at least six others were wounded in other instances of gunfire in Dallas.
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