Man Arrested in Florida in 2016 Murder of Dallas Lawyer Ira Tobolowsky: PD

A 61-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in Florida on a capital homicide cost within the 2016 slaying of outstanding Dallas legal professional Ira Tobolowsky, police say.

Steven Aubrey, 61, was booked into the Broward County Jail in lieu of $2 million bail, The Dallas Morning Information reported, citing jail data. It wasn’t instantly recognized if he had an legal professional.

Tobolowsky, 68, was killed in what was dominated an arson fireplace within the storage of his house on Might 13, 2016.

In keeping with police, Tobolowsky was making ready to depart for work from his house on Kenshire Drive in Dallas when the alleged assault befell. In a press release, police accused Aubrey of pouring gasoline on Tobolowsky and setting him on fireplace, inflicting his dying.

The Dallas County Medical Examiner dominated Tobolowsky’s dying a murder on account of thermal burns, smoke inhalation and blunt pressure trauma, police stated.

Of their assertion, Dallas police stated murder detectives have been working within the years for the reason that crime to conduct interviews and collect proof within the case. At one level of their investigation, Aubrey had a authorized dispute with Tobolowsky and was questioned as an individual of curiosity within the case, although he beforehand denied involvement within the killing, The Dallas Morning Information reported.

Police didn’t instantly say what proof or developments within the case led to Aubrey’s arrest. Bob Hinton, a long-time buddy of Tobolowsky’s, has adopted the case for years.

“When it occurred, it was a horrible, horrible shock. He didn’t have an enemy on this planet, that we had been conscious of,” Hinton stated Thursday. “This factor was simply loopy the best way that it fell out of sight. I’d count on that the Tobolowsky household can be very glad that the case was picked again up.”

Hinton had recognized Tobolowsky since highschool and now additionally practices legislation in Dallas.

“His repute across the courthouse was the identical because it was in highschool and each stroll of his life. He was only a great man. He was very modest type of a man. He by no means missed a sporting occasion of his children, at all times had a video digicam on his shoulder. Simply an sincere, hardworking man and that’s simply the theme of the Tobolowski household,” he stated. “I’m hopeful and really blissful for the Tobolowsky household. It’s not going to carry Ira again however there must be closure.”

Aubrey might be extradited again to Texas, police stated.