Just before midnight Monday Arlington police were called to an apartment complex on Whisper Meadow Lane.
They found 63-year-old Erma Azeez unresponsive in a breezeway and rushed her to a hospital, where she died.
A witness reported seeing a man attacking her with a sharp object. Police say 23-year-old Jacob Guerrero matched the description and his ankle monitor had sent off a tampering alert, which placed him at the scene at the time of the attack.
Police arrested him the next day after a hit-and-run accident they believe he is responsible for. They said he was driving a stolen SUV, hit a pedestrian walking a dog, and then hit another car before driving off.
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“My wife and I just couldn’t understand why he got out so soon,” Brian McDaniel said.
Saturday, March 22, around 11:30 p.m., McDaniel’s home surveillance system captured this man walking onto his property.
“Then he didn’t leave until 2:11 the next morning on Sunday,” he said.
McDaniel said at that time he had no idea that his truck had been stolen with his gun inside.
Police say around 5 a.m., an employee at the nearby Crowley Walmart off East FM 11-87 reported a man chased her through the parking lot with a gun, before demanding her cell phone and taking off in the truck.
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Police said the man was Guerrero, and he led them on a chase that ended with him crashing near a Starbucks. They said he then started running, dropping a gun, but they were able to detain him.
“I was woken up at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning by the police department,” McDaniel said. “I was really shocked, you know.”
Guerrero now faces multiple charges for this incident including aggravated robbery. He was required to wear an ankle monitor.
McDaniel questions the decision to put an ankle monitor on him.
“If they wanted to commit a crime they can do it still, right?” he said. “They know his location but that’s it. I mean, he obviously doesn’t really care about the law or anything. It’s crazy. It’s wild. I don’t know what else to say. I’m just glad he’s back in jail.”
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Guerrero has been charged with murder as well as other charges relating to Azeez’s attack. Police said he was able to cut his ankle monitor off after Monday’s murder.
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MINNESOTA — The first rule of Designated Hitter Club? Learn to perform in Designated Hitter Club.
Texas Rangers first baseman Jake Burger certainly has. He started at designated hitter Tuesday vs. the Minnesota Twins at Target Field and has played the position in four of the club’s last eight games.
“He just seems comfortable DHing,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. “Some guys don’t want to DH, but he’s done a good job at it so we’re going to keep him there.”
Bochy said that Burger’s defense has been too good at first base to keep him at designated hitter long term and acknowledged that he will return to the field soon. But, while the club rotates players through the designated hitter position in the wake of Joc Pederson’s broken hand, Burger functions as a plus option.
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The 29-year-old has a career .258/.293/.559 slash line in 68 games at designated hitter. His .852 OPS is the highest he’s posted at any position that he’s started double-digit times and he entered play Tuesday with a 6 for 12 line and two home runs at designated hitter this season.
The Rangers have gotten a league-worst .521 OPS out of the designated hitter position this year. Pederson, who had a .507 OPS before he fractured his wrist, did drag that number down significantly. Bochy believes that the players who succeed in the role are the ones that can become accustomed to “all the free time” in between innings.
“Then once you do, you like it,” Bochy said with a smile. “Sign me up for that in the next life, DHing, that’d be the perfect job.”
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A largely peaceful march in downtown Austin on Monday condemning the uptick in immigrant detentions across the country dispersed when law enforcement fired tear gas into a portion of the crowd that refused to leave.
The protest, organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Austin branch, began outside state Capitol grounds at around 7 p.m. as several hundred protesters condemned raids conducted in recent weeks by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement. The group guided the mile-long march and chants through downtown toward the J. J. “Jake” Pickle Federal Building before circling back to the Capitol.
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While the organizers announced the end of their gathering just after 8 p.m., more than a hundred protesters continued marching as police told them to leave the streets. Some rerouted back to the federal building but were blocked from it by law enforcement, who eventually fired tear gas canisters into the crowd.
Speakers during the protest and those who marched in downtown Austin said ICE and law enforcement were operating without due process for people they have detained in raids. Some, including Valerie Cruz, an Austin resident and first generation American, came to share their solidarity with undocumented immigrants they say have been villainized by law enforcement.
“I had the privilege of my family being able to come here ‘the right way,’ you know what they say, right? And not everybody has that privilege, not everyone has that luxury, and that’s why I’m here,” Cruz said.
A protest in Dallas also occurred on Monday evening, following two others on Sunday in San Antonio and Houston. All four were inspired by protests against ICE in Los Angeles over the weekend, which started after a series of ICE immigration sweeps and arrests sparked outcry from locals, according to CalMatters.
Protesters bang their fists and write messages on the doors at the entrance of the J.J. “Jake” Pickle Federal Building during a protest against ICE in Austin on Monday.
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State and federal authorities have escalated their presence in Los Angeles as protests have continued. The Pentagon on Monday deployed 700 Marines to Los Angeles hours before protesters gathered in Austin. Those Marines are in addition to the 2,000 National Guard troops sent by the Trump administration to Los Angeles.
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Austin Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety officers gathered and at times surrounded the protesters as they moved through downtown. At one point, a DPS officer fell off their motorcycle while attempting to corral protesters, and shortly afterward, another officer shot pepper spray at a protester who was not near the fallen motorcycle. That protester, who did not wish to be named, was incapacitated after being sprayed in their face.
According to one eyewitness, at least two people were detained, but APD and DPS did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation. It was also unclear whether anyone was injured by the tear gas.
A Department of Public Safety officer sprays a chemical deterrent at a protester during a demonstration against ICE in downtown Austin on Monday. The spray was used after a DPS officer lost control of their bike in the crowd.
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