Warren • Healy Notes & News

DALLAS — The last steps of Troy Causey’s life led him out of the south Dallas home where he’d been staying, past the gated front door, past the tattered basketball hoop and onto the asphalt to fight his roommate, Johnathan Turner. What happened next? Those awful moments have been the subject of debate and heartbreak here for more than a year. A few minutes later, a group of men carried Troy back inside the house. His skull was fractured and his ears were bleeding. Around 9 p.m., he was carried out by Dallas Fire Rescue, which had responded to a...

Victim’s mother after Madison High basketball star gets probation: ‘This is not justice’

06 Jul 2015

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A former Madison High School basketball star won’t go to prison for killing a student athlete from a rival Dallas ISD high school. Johnathan Tramaine Turner received seven years’ probation Monday for fatally beating Wilmer-Hutchins High School basketball player Troy Causey Jr. in March 2014, two weeks after Turner helped his team win a state championship. Turner, 20, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in exchange for deferred adjudication, a type of probation that allows him to avoid formal conviction if he completes it successfully. His attorney says Turner plans to enroll in school, with the hope of playing college basketball now...

Nick Van Exel’s Son Receives a 60-year Prison Sentence

02 Feb 2013

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February 2, 2013 | Posted by Jacobi Eaves Former NBA player Nick Van Exel sat motionless as a Texas jury handed down a 60-year prison sentence to his son on Friday in connection to the shooting death of a longtime friend. Nickey Maxwell Van Exel, 22, received his punishment after he was found guilty of murder on Thursday for killing 23-year-old Bradley Bassey Eyo. The younger Van Exel fatally shot Eyo in December 2010 and dumped his body in Lake Ray Hubbard on the eastern outskirts of Dallas. Van Exel’s attorney claimed that his client and the victim were playing with a...

In the Middle of the Night, Part 2

08 Jun 2012

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Angie was not only murdered but also raped. Police look closely at three men in her life. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy [LINK TO VIDEO]

Man accused of having unprotected sex without revealing HIV

13 Jul 2010

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DALLAS Opening statements were heard on Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of having sex without disclosing a potentially deadly secret. Nathaniel Tumbwecalls himself a doctor and a reverend, but he’s on trial at Crowley Courthouse accused of having unprotected sex with a woman without telling her he had HIV Prosecutors told the jury that they will prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Tumbwe appeared to be visibly shaken during much of the morning’s opening statements. Prosecutors say he knowingly had sex with a 58-year-old woman against her...