Wrongful Death Blog

A 2 year old boy died Saturday night during a pool party at a Denton Subdivision.  Police said they were alerted to a report of a drowning at the Lakeview Ranch development shortly after 9:30pm.  The toddler identified as Solomon Tusant, had been pulled from the pool by adults who were trying to revive him when paramedics arived. 

The child was taken to Denton Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11:37.

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A 21 year old Fort Worth man was accidentally struck and killed near his sport utility vehicle, which had apparently stalled in the northbound lanes of Interstate 35 E near FM1171 early Monday.  Michael Duffey had gotten out of his Honda CR-V which was partially in the road, about 2:30am 30 miles north of Fort Worth when he was hit by a Ford F150, the Northlake police report.

It’s unclear what was wrong with Duffey’s vehicle.  We don’t know if he was out of fuel, but his car was not running when we got there.

The loss of a loved one requires a serious and dedicated wrongful death attorney that is prepared to fight & negotiate appropriate compensation for the loss of your family member.

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Four motorcyclists killed near Dallas, a Houston man has been jailed on four counts of criminally negligent homicide after his car swerved into oncoming traffic on a highway near Canton, killing four people on motorcycles.  Jose Luis Pena of Rosharon was  being held on $2million bail in the Van Zandt County jail.

The crash occurred near Canton, about 60 miles east of Dallas.  According to one witness, the vehicle was swerving in its lane and then crossed into the other lane and struck the motorcycles.  The dead were identified as Bruce Melvin Bricker, and his wife Shannon Rhenee Bricker of Highland Village, who were on one motorcycle and Steve Austin Claterbaugh of Rowlett and his girlfriend Kathleen Dolores Smith of Wylie were on the other motorcycle.

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Police are investigating a motorcycle crash that killed a Garland man and sent three other men to the hospital Thursday night.

No charges have been filed in the crash, which occurred about 10:45 p.m. on the Sam Rayburn Tollway near Hebron Parkway in Carrollton.

A group of 15 sport bikes was traveling north on the tollway and approaching a man riding a Harley Davidson in the center lane when one of the sport bike riders ran into the back of the Harley Davidson, police said. Two other sport bike riders lost control when they ran into the debris from the first crash.

One of the sport bike riders, Asdrubal A. Gomez, 25, died at Baylor Hospital, where he was transported via air ambulance.

Two other motorcyclists, 20-year-old Braulio Estrada and 41-year-old Eric Santiago, were transported to Parkland Memorial Hospital. Estrada remains in critical condition, and Santiago has been released. Both men live in Dallas. Estrada, alone among the motorcyclists, was not wearing a helmet, according to police.

Eric Nelson, a 46-year-old Whitewright resident who was riding the Harley, was taken to Parkland and later released.

The crash closed northbound lanes of the toll road for about four hours. Lanes were reopened for the morning commute.

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Dallas police are asking for help finding a hit-and-run driver who killed a motorcyclist Monday in North Dallas.

Roland Olvera, 41, was driving on West Northwest Highway over the Dallas North Tollway shortly before 4:30 p.m. when he was struck by a red pickup that didn’t stop.

Olvera was ejected from his bike and tumbled over the guardrail onto the toll road 20 feet below. He was transported to Parkland Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The pickup was described as a 1999 red Ford F-150 with an extended cab and damage to the right front side. It has chrome wheels, a tool box in the back and Texas license plate 59CRH8.

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A 25-year-old woman died Sunday after a traffic accident in Watauga that police believe may have involved alcohol.

Early Saturday, Amanda Beasley of Fort Worth was trying to turn left from State Highway 377 onto Basswood Boulevard when she collided with a southbound pickup, according to city spokeswoman Marcia Reyna.

The pickup driver careened through a McDonald’s parking lot and into a car wash before he was able to stop, Reyna said. Beasley died at a hospital the next morning.

The pickup driver, who Reyna did not identify, was in a Watauga jail Sunday evening as police waited for blood-alcohol test results.

Reyna said police expected to charge the man by Monday, probably with vehicular manslaughter.

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A Richardson man was charged with intoxication manslaughter after two women were stuck, one fatally, by his pickup in a parking lot Saturday night, police said.

Richardson police say Louis Hancock Daitch, 29, was driving at an unsafe speed when he lost control of his pickup in the 500 block of West Arapaho Road and struck two women in an adjacent parking lot about 7:45 Saturday.

Geraldine Pulejo, 62, of Richardson was pronounced dead at Richardson Methodist Medical Center. Her friend, Barbara Benson, 68, also of Richardson, was treated and released from the hospital.

Daitch is in police custody at Richardson City Jail. He has been charged with intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault, Richardson police Sgt. Kevin Perlich said.

Pulejo’s death was the first fatality collision in Richardson this year.

Daitch has prior convictions that include possession of a controlled substance and theft, according to Dallas County records.

Gino Pulejo of Plano said he was in “stunned disbelief” after hearing of his mother’s death. He said his mother would walk from her home to a nearby gas station each Saturday night to buy a lottery ticket with a friend.

He described his mother as the “support structure” of the family, a woman who enjoyed spending time with her six grandchildren and growing fruits and vegetables in her garden.

Geraldine and her husband, Salvatore, raised three children in their longtime home in Richardson. They would have celebrated their 46th anniversary on July 4.

“She was a beautiful person,” Gino Pulejo said. “She was a devout Christian. She loved the Lord. We know for certain where she’s at right now.”

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A 25 year old was shot and killed in an ongoing dispute between neighbors at an apartment complex in far southern Dallas.

Police found Neiman Demarcus Derrough of Dallas wounded in an apartment around 1 a.m. in the 5900 block of Highland Village Drive, near Bonnie View and Simpson Stuart roads.

He was taken to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, where he later died.

Another man, who was trying to calm the situation, was also transported to Baylor with gunshot wounds, police said. The man, who wasn’t identified, was expected to survive.

Police said the shooting stemmed from a longstanding quarrel between the residents in two apartments at the complex and that several witnesses are being interviewed.

A description of the shooter wasn’t immediately available, but police said the suspect is likely known by several witnesses.

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The Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and author of the best selling book “The Cross and the Switchblade,” died in an East Texas crash.

He was 79.

Wilkerson was killed when his car smashed head on into a tractor trailer rig after veering into on coming traffic on U.S. 175 west of Cuney, about 95 miles southeast of Dallas, Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said.

Wilkerson founded the nondenominational Protestant Time Square Church in 1987 in an area of Manhattan that was then riddled with X-rated movie houses, strip clubs, prostitution and drugs.

He also founded Teen Challenge, which uses a biblically based recovery program for drug addicts.

In “The Cross and the Switchblade,” Wilkerson wrote about his early years in New York City ministering to drug addicts and gang members. The 1963 book became a best seller and was made into a movie starring Pat Boone.

His family confirmed his death in a statement posted on the website for Wilkerson’s World Challenge Inc. ministries, saying he “went to be with Jesus.”

“We appreciate your prayers and our hearts are sorrowful, yet we rejoice at the joy of knowing David Wilkerson spent his life well,” the statement said.

Wilkerson wasnt wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, according to DPS.

His wife, Gwendolyn, was also in the car and was wearing a seat belt. She was taken to a hospital, where she was in stable condition with cuts and bruises, Mange said.

Along with his wife, David Wilkerson is survived by four children.

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A Dallas man dies overnight after his motorcycle collided with a Volvo in west Oak Cliff.

Jane Wade, 35, and another motorcyclist were southbound on South Westmoreland Road around 6:30 p.m. when they approached the intersection at Ivandell Avenue.

Police said a woman driving a 2004 Volvo pulled away from the stop sign on Ivandell and turned left onto Westmoreland. Wade’s Yamaha collided with the front left side of her Volvo, and the impact ejected him from his seat.

He was taken to Methodist Dallas Medical Center, where he later died, police said. The other biker and Volvo driver were not seriously injured.

The woman, who was not identified, told police that the motorcyclist were going too fast for her to clear the intersection.

Police listed the crash as “criminally negligent homicide,” but it was unclear if any arrests have been made.

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