Fort Worth Police Shootout With Father and Son. What started as a warrant stop led to a violent shootout on the west side of Fort Worth yesterday afternoon. The officer involved, Matt Pearce, is in critical condition at JPS. The mother of Ed Russell McIver Sr. told the Star-Telegram that her son said police “would never take him back alive.” He was shot dead at the scene. Ed Russell McIver Jr. fled in an SUV and then on foot, into the brush and a heavily wooded area, but was apprehended later in the afternoon. According to his grandmother, McIver Jr. was led into this Cormac McCarthy-esque chaos by his father, but the younger McIver wouldn’t hurt anyone because he has “a heart of gold.”
Have You Seen This Man? The Dallas police released a sketch of a man they say is suspected in two Lake Highlands assaults. On February 12, it appears the same man assaulted two different women 15 minutes apart. Police say the suspect is a black man between 30 and 33 years old, about 5-foot-8.
Off-duty Officer Says Magic Words: “Feared For My Life,” Almost Certainly Won’t Be Charged in Death of 16-Year-Old Boy. Off-duty Farmers Branch police officer Ken Johnson reportedly saw two boys burglarizing his SUV in an apartment parking lot. The off-duty officer got in his vehicle and gave chase, following the boys, identified as 16-year-olds Jose Raul Cruz and Edgar Rodriguez, into Addison, where there was finally a collision. Johnson then shot Cruz dead, and shot Rodriguez in the head — he’s at Parkland, expected to survive. There is no word on whether either kid was armed. Police from both the Addison and Farmers Branch forces say Johnson is cooperating and that they aren’t rushing the investigation. Johnson’s attorney stressed that his client feared for his life during the confrontation. (I know what you’re thinking, and yes, I’m sure that if anyone saw two kids possibly breaking into a car, chased them for miles, got into a wreck with them, killed one and put a bullet in the other’s head, that they would not immediately be arrested on the spot, and that they would receive the exact same treatment as this off-duty police officer.)
Local Man’s Son Still in Presidential Race. The son of local flan expert Rafael Cruz was, as of late last night, in a statistical tie with Donald Trump in the Missouri Republican primary. Trump won Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina. John Kasich won Ohio. Marco Rubio quit.
