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Analyzing the best Dallas-area high school safeties in the Class of 2025
Out of the 10 safeties that made The Dallas Morning News’ top 100 recruits list for the class of 2024, five of them ranked within the top 25. This year, however, not one safety made it that high on the list.
Here’s a look at each of the safeties ranked within The News’ top 100 recruits list for the class of 2024.
No. 28 Sael Reyes
Reyes, the safety ranked as No. 38 in the country according to 247Sports.com, helped DeSoto to a 16-0 record and the Texas 6A D-1 state championship during his junior season last year. He recorded 60 tackles, one sack, one interception and one forced fumble.
He committed to SMU on May 19 over scholarship offers from Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, LSU and others.
No. 29 Tyren Polley Jr.
The 5-foot-10, 180 pound rising senior at Duncanville helped his school to its second consecutive Texas 6A D-1 state championship this past season.
During the 2023-24 season, Polley Jr. recorded 51 solo tackles, 79 total tackles and three interceptions.
After receiving scholarship offers from LSU, Oklahoma, SMU and others, the safety committed to SMU on Feb 23.
No. 46 Bo Onu
The Baylor Bears added Onu, a three-star safety out of Hebron, to its class of 2025 in June.
Onu is coming off of a first-team all-district junior season, and has the ability to play a hybrid safety role as well as a roaming linebacker position.
Last season, the 6-foot-1, 210 pound safety tallied 29 tackled, snagged three interceptions and recovered three fumbles.
No. 59 Ayden Webb
According to 247Sports.com, Webb is ranked as No. 110 among all safeties nationally in the class of 2025.
Webb aided Lake Highlands to a 9-3 overall record and a 7-1 district record, placing them first in the 6A Region 1 District 7 standings.
The three-star safety committed to the Oklahoma State Cowboys on June 19 after receiving scholarship offers from SMU, TCU, Houston and others.
No. 63 Nathan Tilmon
Three days after his official visit to Texas in June, Tilmon decommited from SMU and decided to re-open his recruitment status.
The 6-foot, 185-pound safety out of Mansfield Timberview only played in eight games during his junior season and recorded 34 tackles and six pass breakups.
No. 85 Tobias Gary
During his 16-game junior season, Gary aided South Oak Cliff to a Texas 5A D-II state runner-up finish and the Golden Bears’ third consecutive year making a title game appearance. He tallied 59 tackles and three interceptions during the 2023-24 season.
The 5-foot-11, 180-pound safety received scholarship offers from Texas, Kansas, Texas Tech and others but chose to commit to LA Tech.
No. 91 Braylan McDonald
McDonald, a three-star recruit from Lancaster, helped his team to an overall record of 9-6 and a 5-3 district record, placing them in fourth place out of the 5A-1 Region II District 7 standings.
According to 247Sports.com, McDonald is ranked as the No. 93 safety in the nation. He has received scholarship offers from Texas Tech, Boston College and others, but committed to Washington State on June 29.
No. 92 Rohon Kazadi
Kazadi, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound safety out of Plano, only appeared in five games during his junior football season. He recorded 14 solo tackles and 29 total tackles.
He received offers from Memphis, Syracuse, Tulsa and others but has yet to come to a commitment decision.
No. 98 Zephen Walker
In 2022, Walker primarily played offense in seven games as a sophomore, completing 10-of-19 passes for 157 yards and rushed for 154 yards and one touchdown.
However, he transitioned to safety fulltime during his junior year at Lewisville. Last season, the 5-foot-11, 180-pound safety recorded 48 tackles and one interception.
Walker has received college offers from Army, Navy, Arkansas State and others, but he committed to the Oregon State Beavers on June 27.
No. 100 Juan-Milleon Aguilar
Aguilar began his varsity debut as a freshman playing snaps on both offense and defense. He caught eight passes for 134 yards and one touchdown while recording 40 tackles, three interceptions and one fumble recovery.
As a Bishop Dunne sophomore in 2022, Aguilar tallied 51 tackles, three interceptions and three fumble recoveries.
During his junior season, however, he aided Dallas Kimball to an 8-3 record and a Texas 5A D-II playoff appearance.
The 5-foot-11, 170-pound safety has received scholarship offers from Texas State, Grambling State and others but has yet to make a commitment decision. He posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he will announce his commitment on July 17.
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It became Dallas County’s new, contemporary facility to house accused criminals in 1993. Today, close to 7,000 men and women each day either serve time, wait for trials, or transfer to state prison inside the county’s Lew Sterrett jail.
The elected leader of county government, Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins, says it’s time for a new facility — and it will cost billions to build it.
“We’ve got to begin planning and doing the work, because we can’t wait until this jail is absolutely just failing,” said Jenkins.
Expansion and development in and around downtown Dallas have the county keeping quiet about future locations.
“So we are looking at sites, and I think we’ll have land purchased this year,” Jenkins said. “And a land purchase in the relative scheme of things is a very insignificant financial amount of this.
“When I’m talking about starting on planning and building of a jail, I’m talking about something that will open perhaps 8 or 9 or even ten years from now.”
To complete a new facility in 10 years, Jenkins said the costs will be in the billions, based on a desire to build a jail that offers mental health and substance abuse treatment, trying to end the cycle of folks filling the jail, arrested over and over again for non-violent crimes.
A hearing room at Dallas City Hall was packed with an overflow crowd. Supporters of Oak Lawn United Methodist Church were ready for a fight, but that fight was one-sided.
“Rainbow steps shouldn’t be controversial,” one supporter said during his 3 minutes at the public comment microphone. “It’s just paint, y’all!”
The church came to the Dallas Landmark Commission to get permission for the rainbow steps painted last month in response to Governor Greg Abbott’s order to paint over crosswalks with political or ideological references, like the rainbow crosswalk outside Oak Lawn United Methodist.
“”These rainbow steps that I’m sitting on are an art installation,” Oak Lawn United Methodist Church Senior Pastor Reverend Rachel Griffin-Allison said. “We feel that it is urgent to make a statement, make a bold statement, and a visible statement, to say that who you are is queer, and beloved, and belongs here.”
As NBC 5 spoke with the pastor, someone yelled homophobic insults from a passing car.
“This is important to have because that kind of heckling happens all the time,” Griffin-Allison said somberly.
The church, a Gothic revival building, is a designated historic landmark, which is why it needed the Dallas Landmark Commission’s approval.
“They are not considered part of the historic preservation building; they are just steps,” one speaker said during public comments.
Several speakers pointed out that the steps had been painted a “gaudy blood red” in the past, and then a shade of gray with no comments or approval.
“When I see the stairs, I see love, support, inclusion, and kindness,” a woman wearing sequin rainbow sneakers said. “They bring a smile to my face and my heart.”
“If you don’t like rainbow steps on your church, then go to one of the 500 churches that don’t have them,” a young man said to the commissioners. “We have one street that represents this culture, and we have one church with rainbow steps!”
Not a single speaker spoke out against the rainbow steps art installation, and it was apparent there was no fight with the commissioners either, as they unanimously voted to allow the rainbow steps to stay up for 3 years.
DALLAS – Dallas police arrested a man for murder after they say he shot a couple he met through an online dating app.
What we know:
Investigators say 26-year-old Noah Trueba shot and killed a 57-year-old woman on Friday morning in Northwest Dallas. Dallas Fire-Rescue responded and pronounced one of the individuals, 57-year-old Guadalupe Gonzalez, dead at the scene.
The second victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
According to an affidavit, Trueba drank and used drugs with the two, who called themselves husband and wife. Trueba later told police that the couple tried to sexually assault him, so he opened fire.
A police drone located him hiding along a nearby highway, after he ran from the scene.
What’s next:
Trueba was arrested at the scene. He is currently booked in the Dallas County Jail and being charged with murder.
This is an ongoing investigation and anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Brewster Billings at 214-671-3083 or at brewster.billings@dallaspolice.gov.
The Source: Information in this article was provided from documents provided by the Dallas Police Department.
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