McQueen Charged With Vasquez Murder
A 25-year old white male is dead from gunshot wounds following a Sunday night shootout on Ingram Street in Sulphur Springs. A 19-year old white male is in custody at Hopkins County jail awaiting a magistrate’s hearing to be charged with murder Monday morning, according to Justice of the Peace B. J. Teer. Teer pronounced the victim of the shooting dead Sunday night at Hopkins County Memorial Hospital ER. Sulphur Springs Police...
Grand Jury Indicts Mapps For Murder, Tampering With Evidence
Wednesday afternoon, September 23 2015, a Hopkins County Grand Jury indicted Tilton Joshua Mapps for murder and for tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. Mapps, 20, was charged with the murder of Jonathan Trahern Young, 26, at Pacific Park June 8th of this year. The charge related to physical evidence was added on July 8th of this year. Mapps became a suspect in the murder after local law enforcement questioned several...
Veracruz Charged With Murder in Franklin County
James Dale Veracruz has officially been charged with Murder, a First Degree Felony, in the shooting death of Darrell G. Blankenship. Franklin County Justice of the Peace Jim Alford magistrate Varacruz, setting his bond at $1.5 million Friday, July 24, 2015. Franklin County Sheriff, Ricky Jones said his department along with the assistance of Texas Department of Public Safety’s Texas Rangers Service investigated the murder of the 50...
Murder in Franklin County; Suspect in Custody
MOUNT VERNON, TX (07-23-2015) Franklin County Sheriff, Ricky Jones announced today that his department along with the assistance of Texas Department of Public Safety’s Texas Rangers Service are investigating the Murder of a 50 year old white male victim. Deceased is Darrell G. Blankenship who lived in a residence on the south side of the Scroggins Store. JP Jim Alford pronounced Blankenship dead and ordered an autopsy. A White Male...
Search Continues for Murder Suspect
Public assistance is requested by the Sulphur Springs Police Department as they continue their search for the elusive Tilton Joshua Isaiah Mapps of Greenville, according to SSPD CID Sgt. David Gilmore. The 20-year old black male is considered armed and dangerous. Mapps is wanted in the shooting death of Jonathan Trahern Young, 26, of Sulphur Springs. Gilmore thinks Mapps has connections not only in Greenville but in other areas of...
Murder Suspect Proves Elusive
Sulphur Springs Police officers continue their investigation of the early Monday morning shooting death of Jonathan Trahern Young, 26, of Sulphur Springs. SSPD CID Sgt. David Gilmore said they continue to seek the suspect, Tilton Mapps of Greenville. The search for Mapps has proven him elusive since the search for him began shortly after the incident. Law enforcement thinks he has connections not only in Greenville but in other areas...
Duffey Found Guilty of Murder
Tuesday afternoon, 8th Judicial District Judge Eddie Northcutt pronounced Roy Dean Duffey guilty of the murder of David Harrison Cooper. The sentencing phase will conclude Wednesday. The verdict followed two days of testimony during which Defense Attorney Frank Hughes argued Duffy acted in self-defense on February 20, 2011 when he stabbed Cooper with a World War II battle knife. Tuesday morning at 10:30 a.m. District Attorney Will...
Rains County Man Guilty of Grandmother’s Murder
March 30, 2015 – Last week in the Eighth Judicial District Court of Rains County, Brandon Couch was found guilty in the 2012 murder of his grandmother, Mattie Couch, by a jury Wednesday afternoon and on Thursday was sentenced to 40 years in prison by Judge Paul Banner, the presiding judge and fourth judge assigned to the case. According to a press release from the office of Rains County Attorney Robert F. Vititow, a jury...
Cody Shaw Arraigned in Capital Murder Case
Hopkins County will have to pick up the costs of attorneys for one of two men indicted for capital murder in what are expected to be a death penalty cases. County Judge Robert Newsom said an insurance policy would pay for attorneys for Cody Scott Shaw of Emory. The policy will not cover co-defendant Patrick Wayne McMahan of Sulphur Springs. The cost could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The men were indicted December 8. DA...
“Updated” Capital Murder Cases to Cost County Hundreds of Thousands
Hopkins County will have to pick up the costs of attorneys for one of two men indicted for capital murder in what are expected to be a death penalty cases. County Judge Robert Newsom said an insurance policy would pay for attorneys for Cody Scott Shaw of Emory. The policy will not cover co-defendant Patrick Wayne McMahan of Sulphur Springs. The cost could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The men were indicted December 8. DA...
