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Monday June 08, 2026
TYLER – A Mineola man has been arrested for shooting at a Smith County sheriff’s deputy. The incident happened April 8th when a deputy answered a suspicious persons call on County Road 462, in far northwest Smith County. When the deputy sounded his siren, two shots came from a camper trailer. One hit the rear window of the patrol car. When 35 year old Joshua Forrester came out of the trailer, he was taken to a hospital for evaluation. After further investigation, he was charged with aggravated assault against a public servant. He was booked into the Smith County Jail early Thursday morning under a bond of $1 million.
WASHINGTON – Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn want to honor the Founders of Mercy Ships. The senators have introduced legislation to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Don and Deyon Stephens. They are the founders of the non-profit Mercy Ships of Garden Valley, west of Lindale. The medal is in recognition of their nearly 40 years of service. Mercy Ships transforms retired ocean liners and ferries into hospital ships that provide humanitarian aid across the world. Tyler congressman Louie Gohmert has introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
LONGVIEW – A Longview law firm has been retained by the widow and by a victim with permanent injuries in connection with a murder case against a former East Texas nurse. Our news partner KETK reports The Sloan, Hatcher, Perry, Runge, Robertson & Smith Law Firm has been hired by both the widow of Christopher Greenaway and the man identified by the Tyler Police Department as John Doe 4. They were said to have been killed or injured by former CHRISTUS Mother Frances and Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital nurse, William George Davis. He has been charged in the death of Christopher Greenaway. Tyler Police Jimmy Chief Toler has said Davis is being investigated in six other cases in which patients were injured. He likely will be charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault.
ELKHART – One person has died in a one vehicle accident in Anderson County. Dead at the scene was Bethany Anastasia Dakota Giron, 17, of Elkhart. The Department of Public Safety reports she was traveling at an unsafe speed, around 12:30 Wednesday morning, when her pickup left the road on a curve. The pickup became airborne across Manson Creek and struck a dirt embankment with its front end.
JACKSONVILLE – Jacksonville police are investigating two shootings. The first occurred shortly before 7:00 Monday evening on Palestine Street. One person received a minor injury and two vehicles were damaged. About seven and a half hours later another shooting was reported on the same street. Hit this time was a house and an unoccupied vehicle. Investigators feel the two cases are related. They have released no further information.
LONGVIEW – A man has been killed in Longview when his vehicle rolled over him. The accident happened Wednesday morning on East Marshall Avenue in front of Jennings Scrap & Salvage. Police investigators say the man got out of his 18-wheeler and the vehicle started rolling down the hill. Before he could get back into the vehicle, it ran over him. His name has not been released.
LONGVIEW – A Longview man has plead guilty to two aggravated robbery charges and one engaging in organized criminal activity charge. Kaleb Bush, 19, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. In August, 2016, He and his uncle were accused of robbing people at a family barbecue. After bonding out of jail, Bush and four others are said to have robbed a man at the Tree House Apartments. Then, several days later, Bush and three men are said to have robbed a man in the parking lot of the Summer Brook Apartments.
LONGVIEW – A Longview man is free on a $25,000 bond following his arrest on drug charges. Daquayivious Dejuan Fowlkes, 23, was arrested after officers served a search warrant at a home on Hubbard Drive. In the home, officers found crack cocaine, ecstacy powder, ecstacy and hydrocodone pills, and a small amount of marijuana. Fowlkes was charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance.
TYLER – The Alamo is on the road and you will be able to see it. The Alamo Roadshow will be in Tyler on Wednesday. The road show gives you a chance to learn about ongoing preservation work happening at the state’s most well-known historic site. They are also bringing several artifacts from the Alamo and General Land Office Archives that will someday appear in exhibits in the planned Alamo Museum and Visitor’s Center. The roadshow opens Wednesday evening at 6:00 at the TISD Career & Technology Center on Earl Campbell Parkway.
LINDEN – A former state trooper in east Texas has been indicted for sexual abuse of a child. The Longview News Journal reports Louis Paul Weems, 33, of Marshall, has been indicted by the Cass County grand jury. He is charged with the continuous sexual abuse of a child, indecency with a child by contact and indecency with a child by exposure. Weems, who was arrested last week, is currently free on a $450,000 bond. He was suspended by the DPS when the allegations surfaced last November. He was fired in January.
EAST TEXAS – Medical facilities in 19 east Texas counties, including Smith and Gregg counties, will be taking part in a mass exercise on Wednesday on moving a large number of patients across the region. They will be practicing handling a large group of patients following a hit by a tornado. The medical facilities will be simulating the actual process of receiving the patients, assessing their condition and treatment plans. They will also work on admitting the patient to their facility or to evacuate existing patients due to extensive damage. While hospitals and EMS agencies handle emergencies each day, there is a different process when they are moving several hundred patients at a time. Around 250 students will act as tornado victims for the exercise.
TYLER – Heritage Land Bank is reporting a possible security breach. In a news release, the bank says the breach involves the lockbox payment processing service, provided by third-party vendor, Frost Bank. Frost Bank has stopped the unauthorized access and secured its software. Heritage Land Bank is taking the necessary steps to transfer its lockbox payment services to another financial institution. Anyone who has mailed checks to the San Antonio address are encouraged to monitor their accounts for any unauthorized or suspect activity and report such activity to their bank. The FBI and U.S. Secret Service are leading the investigation.
COFFEE CITY – One person has been killed in a one vehicle accident in Henderson County. It happened Monday night around 8:45 on Farm Road 314, just over 6 miles southwest of Coffee City. Killed was 58 year old Caesar Samuel Smith, of LaRue. The Department of Public Safety says his pickup drifted off the road. The driver over steered and the pickup crossed the road, where it struck a tree and overturned. Smith later died at a Tyler hospital.
SMITH COUNTY – A fatal vehicle/pedestrian accident in Smith County remains under investigation. It happened around 9:45 Monday night on Farm road 2661 just south of County Road 1130. Killed was 39 year old Alan Cleaver of Flint. Had had parked in a private drive and waked across the farm road to get his mail. A northbound driver was unable to see him and hit hit him. Cleaver was taken to a Tyler hospital where he later died.
LONGVIEW – In state district court in Longview Monday, Aaron Castile Bowling, 28, of Longview, pleaded guilty to the murder of his 2 year old daughter. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison by District Judge Alfonso Charles. Alanis Bowling was taken by her mother, Jamie Lee Nelson, 26, to the hospital in December, 2015. Because of the severity of her injuries, she was later flown to a Dallas hospital, where she died. As officers began to investigate the case, the parents provided a story that was not consistent with the child’s injuries. Her mother is charged with negligence and endangering a child. The case against her is still pending.