Gone for life well, until paroled in 30+ years

The end of this story?

Nah, there will be the appeals and then the writs.

Man who killed wife to spend life in prison

-SAEN

A Bexar County jury on Tuesday sentenced David Garza to life in prison for the 2006 asphyxiation death of his wife.

Julie Garza, 31, a mother of two children, was making plans to leave her abusive relationship with David Garza and return to her hometown in the Valley when her body was discovered in the bathtub of her Northwest Side mobile home.

David Garza was found guilty Monday.

Jurors on Tuesday heard about his three earlier felony convictions as well as his flight from San Antonio to West Texas after his wife’s slaying. He had crashed his own car and then led authorities on an almost 70-mile chase after carjacking and stabbing a man who had picked him up hitchhiking.

End of the story

I would think the jury gave her such a relatively light sentence because they weren't happy with the cops on the video.

Just a guess.

Caregiver gets five years for shaking baby
Graeme Zielinski - Express-News

After the San Antonio caregiver convicted of shaking Brenda Bonano's baby was sentenced to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, Bonano stood and addressed Aritzaid Santiago.
“I'm not happy,” Bonano said in tearful Spanish.
She said all she had wanted from Santiago, 39, was the truth and that Tuesday was not a day of celebration for the Bonano family.

Santiago, who was found guilty Friday of causing injury in March 2006 to Nathan Bonano, then 5 months old, merely wept and sunk low as she sat in the jury box.
Nathan Bonano had to undergo emergency surgery and sustained brain and retinal damage.
The jury of eight women and four men arrived at the sentence after a marathon day Monday, when they began their deliberations at about 9 a.m. and were ordered sequestered in a hotel by Judge Pat Priest shortly after 10 p.m.

The panel reconvened Tuesday morning at about 7:45 a.m. before arriving at the sentence a little more than an hour later.
Denied an appeal bond by Priest, Santiago was handcuffed and taken into custody after Brenda Bonano addressed her. Santiago had been free on bond before her trial.

Santiago's lawyers, Jay Norton and Jeff Mulliner, spoke privately with the jury after the sentence was handed down. They said jurors told them they began their deliberations split on whether to sentence Santiago to probation or to send her to prison.
The five-year sentence, which will make Santiago eligible for parole in 2½ years, was the minimum once the jurors decided they needed to set an example for the community and have her serve time, Norton said.

Wilfredo Santiago, her husband of 21 years and father to their 3-year-old twins, was visibly shaken by the sentence when he addressed reporters. He professed his love for his wife and vowed an appeal of the conviction.
“I know that she's not responsible for what they're accusing her (of),” he said.

Brenda Bonano said the condition of her son, who is days shy of his third birthday, had improved markedly but he still undergoes therapy and must take anti-seizure medication.
She said she was unimpressed by Santiago's demeanor.
“She still says I didn't do it,” Bonano said. “But she did it.”

BOLO (be on the look-out)

Please contact the Boerne PD if you have any information.

Thank you!

Boerne police seek help finding suspect
-SAEN

Police are seeking the public’s help to find Marlon J. Ordonez, a suspect in the Oct. 12 wounding of a man in an argument that erupted among men drinking beer at a home on Old San Antonio Road in Boerne.

An arrest warrant on a charge of aggravated assault was issued for Ordonez, 25, based on witness information that he pulled the trigger of a .22-caliber rifle, hitting Jorge Jovani Mendez, 33, in the arm, leg and buttocks, said Boerne Police Chief Gary Miller on Tuesday.

He said Ordonez, who is 5 feet tall and weighs 130 pounds, is believed to be staying in Boerne or San Antonio. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 830-816-3194.

Not Mr. Roger's neighborhood

Another killing in 2 days in the same neighborhood.

Gang-related? Drug-related?

Who knows but it is frightening to those who live there, I am sure.

1 killed in second North Side neighborhood shooting
By David Saleh Rauf and Alejandro Martinez Cabrera - Express-News

Police late Tuesday evening are investigating a fatal shooting in a North Side neighborhood where gunshots rang out for the second consecutive night.
About 9:15 p.m., San Antonio police responded to a shooting in the 11100 block of Baywood Drive, where they found a man dead outside his residence with multiple gunshot wounds.
He was not identified, and police did not immediately provide a motive for the shooting.
Tuesday’s gunplay in the neighborhood just north of Castle Hills follows a Monday evening drive-by that left one man critically wounded.

About 22 hours before Tuesday evening’s shooting, a 35-year-old man was shot as he walked with his wife in the 11200 block of Belair Drive, just one block away from Tuesday's shooting.
In Monday's incident, police said a gunman fired four rifle rounds from the bed of a pickup just before midnight, hitting the man once in his upper right leg. The man was taken to University Hospital, where his condition was downgraded to critical as of 5 a.m. Tuesday, Capt. Cris Andersen said.

While the motive behind Tuesday’s shooting is unclear, police believe Monday’s could be gang-related. A witness to that shooting told police they heard one of the four men in the pickup scream what police believe is a gang nickname as it drove off, Andersen said.
Prior to this week’s spate of shootings, the neighborhood has had some serious incidents in the past, Andersen said.

In mid-July, a 6-month-old infant was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting. In that incident, a gunman fired 10 rounds with a .22-caliber pistol from a moving vehicle, striking Mya Isabella Baxter once in her side as she lay in a stroller.

Police later arrested and charged Jeremy David Mendoza, 17, with injury to a child in connection with the girl's shooting.
“The gunfire has been an ongoing occurrence,” said Timothy Martin, a resident of the neighborhood, after Monday’s shooting.

Call waiting

Pretty sad situation.

Aside from the obvious, that the calls of these folks should be circumscribed to prevent harassment, it is very sad that a guard or guards is involved.

Perhaps TDCJ will want to revisit their pay scales for these guards?

Cell phone spurs Texas prisons lockdown
By Jennifer Latson - Houston Chronicle

Ten inmates on Texas' death row, aided by a prison guard working for bribes, made nearly 3,000 cell phone calls in the last 30 days, including several to state Sen. John Whitmire, state officials revealed Monday.

The announcement prompted Gov. Rick Perry to order a statewide prison lockdown Monday afternoon and to search every inmate, staff member and visitor for contraband. Earlier in the day, police arrested one inmate's mother for allegedly footing the phone bill, while investigators prodded the prisoners to name the guard who supplied the phone.
Death row inmates are held in 24-hour isolation and are forbidden any contact with the outside world. But state officials say they have confiscated 19 cell phones from death row prisoners this year.

"This isn't isolated. We have severe security breaches in all or most of our prisons,'' said Whitmire, who said he was shocked and shaken by Tabler's phone calls over the past two weeks. "There is a tolerance of contraband that is unacceptable.''

In a series of calls starting Oct. 7, Tabler asked Whitmire - who represents north Houston and Harris County - to help him find a pro-bono attorney to revisit his case, and to coax prison officials into allowing him to see his mother and grandmother. Tabler, who confessed to killing two teenage girls and two adult men in 2004, told Whitmire he knew where the senator's daughters lived.

Whitmire spoke about the phone calls only with his family, with state Inspector General John Moriarty, who is tasked with investigating prison crimes, and with Mike Ward, an Austin newspaper reporter who was also in contact with Tabler.

Ward, too, kept his conversations under wraps and worked with Whitmire and Moriarty to help trace the cell phone's path within and between the most heavily secured of prison walls.
During the phone calls, Whitmire said he tried not to ruffle Tabler or arouse his suspicion.
"I said, 'How did you get a phone?''' Whitmire recalled of his first conversation. ``He said, '$2,100.' I said, `How are you charging it?' He said, `I have a charger.'''

Moriarty traced the cell phone to within the Livingston prison where Tabler is awaiting the death penalty. The inspector also found that Tabler's mother, Lorraine Tabler, was paying for the phone's minutes from her home in Georgia. And he discovered that the same phone had been used by as many as nine other inmates, all of them known gang members, to place 2,800 calls. Their relatives sent payments to Tabler's mother to offset the phone bill.
Many of their calls went to fellow gang members outside of prison, Whitmire said. They also called relatives and anti-death penalty advocates, he said.

Monday's crackdown was hatched after Whitmire learned that Tabler's mother would be landing in Austin around 9 a.m. to visit her son. While police staked out the airport, Ward got Tabler on the phone so investigators could catch him with it, Whitmire said.
A random search of Tabler's prison cell last week had come up short. Tabler told Whitmire he had handed the phone off to a guard in advance.
As police arrested his mother in Austin on Monday, investigators surprised Tabler in his cell.

Before they snatched the phone, Whitmire said, Tabler made a final threat to the reporter: ``I will Google you. I can find out what you drive.''
Ward did not return phone calls seeking comment Monday. Whitmire is taking extra precautions to keep his family safe, he said.

"I'm still in shock. I've never had any experience with a death row inmate,'' he said. ``No one should have to deal with what I've gone through in the past two weeks. Can you imagine the fear of crime victims, police, prosecutors and jurors who locked these people up? These folks have nothing to lose, and they have contacts in gangs still on the streets of Texas.''

Whitmire, who heads the senate's criminal justice committee, says he will call today for new security measures to prevent guards from carrying contraband, including metal detectors, surveillance cameras, and search dogs at all prison gates.

"Correction officers work for low pay in a very dangerous environment,'' he said.
"We need to support them, but we need to find and prosecute every crooked officer. I just think you need to ask the honest correction officers to help clean the mess up.''

A woman scorned...

Shakespere and Chris Rock were right.

Don't get women angry at you.

Payback's a bitch.

No, I am not condoning what the deputy did.

Deputy held on child porn charge
Marvin Hurst - KENS 5 Eyewitness News

A deputy for the Bexar County Sheriff's Office is behind bars charged with possession of child pornography.
Gilbert Barrientos Jr., 38, was arrested at work after San Antonio Police Department's vice unit reportedly found evidence the deputy was in possession of child pornography. His bond is set at $10,000.

According to an arrest warrant, Barrientos and his wife were having marital issues because she suspected him of cheating. His wife told investigators they argued and when things got heated she left in her husband's truck and discovered two computer thumb drives.

The warrant states Barrientos' wife began sorting through the thumb drives on a computer and found multiple pictures of child pornography, including a 4-year-old child having sex with an adult male

After their forensic analysis, vice detectives said they recovered more than 200 illegal images on the drives.
Barrientos has been with the Sheriff's Office since 2001.

DWB (driving while Black or Brown)

Hello?

This is news? Ask anyone, anybody in this country and they would have known this.

I guess it is good to have the data quantified since apparently the LAPD still doesn't believe it happens.

Study finds LA police stop more blacks than whites
By THOMAS WATKINS Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A report by a civil liberties group has found that Los Angeles police officers are more likely to stop and search black and Hispanic residents than they are whites, even though whites are more often found carrying guns and contraband.
"The results of this study raise grave concerns that African-Americans and Hispanics are over-stopped, over-frisked, over-searched, and over-arrested," said report author Ian Ayres, a Yale Law School economist and professor.

Ayres' report, published Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, analyzed the Los Angeles Police Department's own accounts of 810,000 pedestrian and motor vehicle stops in the year from July 2003 to June 2004.

Even after researchers controlled for demographics and neighborhood crime rates, they found significantly higher stop rates for black and Latino residents. For every 10,000 residents, blacks were nearly three times more likely to be stopped than white and other "non-minority" residents, facing 3,400 more stops. Hispanics were stopped on 350 more occasions.
Even though Ayres used the LAPD's own data, his findings were at odds with an earlier analysis carried out for the department. The LAPD acknowledged racial disparities in some divisions but, after controlling for several variables, found "no consistent pattern of race effects."

Ayres, however, said one officer stopped more than 100 blacks and 100 Hispanics but only one white. The professor did not include that officer in his analysis because it was an extreme situation and could skew results.
A summary of Ayres' report states that during the past five years the LAPD has received nearly 1,200 citizen complaints alleging racial profiling, but the department hasn't sustained a single one.
"Los Angeles officials have yet to acknowledge the scope of the problem of racially biased policing or to fully embrace solutions," the summary stated.

Police Chief William Bratton said he disagrees strongly with the report's findings and interpretation.
"This department does not engage in racial profiling, has not. We have significant safeguards built in to protect against that," Bratton said Monday at a press conference. "Nobody investigates allegations of racial bias or racial profiling more aggressively than this department, this commission and this inspector general."

Tim Sands, president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League union, strongly disputed the report's findings and pointed out that the department mirrors the racial demographics of Los Angeles, with more Hispanic officers than white officers.
"Dr. Ayres is trying to manipulate existing data to prove what 9,700 individual officers are thinking when they make traffic stops - which is an exercise that might work on a spreadsheet at Yale, but doesn't work on the streets of Los Angeles," Sands said.

Stop and Rob Not!

Good job PD!

Time for us to go to work.

Two charged after alleged robbery

By Mark Koopmans The Herald-Zeitung

Two men have been charged with aggravated robbery following an incident reportedly involving a handgun at Circuit City in New Braunfels. The men, who police officials refused to identify Monday night, were arrested only hours after police responded to Monday incident.

About 3 p.m., officers with the New Braunfels Police Department responded to a robbery call at the Circuit City at 1286 North Interstate 35, said Lt. Mike Penshorn.“According to witnesses, two males had been involved in the theft of several electronic items,” he said. When the store’s loss prevention employees approached the pair, one of the men reportedly pulled out a handgun,

Penshorn said.“The subjects had fled prior to officers arrived on the scene,” he said. “However, officers were quickly able to find the vehicle used by the two suspects.”The grey-colored, late-model Pontiac Grand Am was found in the Econo Lodge Inn & Suites parking lot, 1254 Farm-to-Market 1101, only a few hundred yards from the store. Penshorn said the two men were detained at the same location as their reported get-away vehicle,which was towed away about 4:15 p.m.

The men were charged with one count each of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony. If convicted, the men could face five to 99 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer

Thank God for stupid crooks.

They make our job easier. LOL

Saints fan, 15, found in seat with stolen ticket
Chronicle News Services

NEW ORLEANS — Police tracking a credit card stolen from a parked car didn't have to look far to find their suspect.
The 15-year-old was sitting in his assigned seat at the Superdome after using the purloined card to purchase a ticket to a Saints game.
"You would think if you are going to buy a ticket to get in the stadium (on a stolen credit card), you would go sit somewhere else," said Maj. Greg Elder, commander of the New Orleans Police Department's 3rd District.

The credit card was stolen Oct. 6 when someone snatched a purse left in the unlocked car. The owner of the car reported the theft and told Detectives Tony Mayfield and Chris Harris that her credit card company reported the card had been used to buy a ticket to that night's NFL Saints game against the Minnesota Vikings.

The detectives arrived just before halftime, and recognized the young man in the seat as somebody who had previously been arrested for auto burglary, Elder said.
When they asked to see his ticket, he handed over a white envelope containing the ticket, the stolen credit card and the woman's driver's license, according to the initial police report filed by the detectives.

Police arrested the youth and escorted him out of the Superdome. Walking to the police car, he apologized and told the detectives he has a problem taking things that don't belong to him, the report said.
Mayfield and Harris advised him not to make any further statements unless his mother was present, and took the 15-year-old to the NOPD's juvenile division. He was booked with auto burglary and possession of stolen property.

Elder said people need to lock their car doors, adding that a substantial portion of burglary complaints come from people who left valuable items inside an unsecured vehicle.
"I wouldn't do it even in front of (police) headquarters," he said.

Be careful folks, please

I sure hope she recovers soon and completely

We wish you well Officer Johnson and pray for your recovery.

SUV strikes, critically injures police officer
Brian Chasnoff - Express-News

A police officer suffered life-threatening injuries early Sunday when an SUV plowed into her as she tended to the scene of a traffic collision on Interstate 35, police said.
Officer Julie Johnson, a two-year member of the Police Department, was airlifted to Brooke Army Medical Center with broken ribs and other internal injuries, police spokesman Joe Rios said.

In response to a wreck, Johnson was placing flares in the southbound lanes of the interstate near Laredo Street around 3 a.m. when a white SUV struck her, throwing her about 25 feet, a police report said.

The driver of the SUV told police he was trying to decide whether to take the upper or lower level of Interstate 35 when he swerved late to avoid the flares and struck a concrete barrier, blowing out a tire and veering toward Johnson.

Failure to stop and render aid is a crime too, folks

Another drinking and driving tragedy?

No way to prove it now as the driver ran off. As did the passenger.

Leaving the woman to die, nice fellows.

Woman killed by pickup outside bar
Brian Chasnoff - Express-News

A pickup peeled out from the parking lot of a South Side bar early Sunday, crushing and killing a woman who had been running alongside it in high heels, a police report said.
Patricia Prado, 35, suffered head trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene in the 3700 block of Roosevelt Avenue.
The driver and a passenger in the pickup, both unidentified men, fled and had not been found on Sunday.

According to witnesses, Prado approached the pickup around 2 a.m. outside the bar when the driver suddenly accelerated. Running alongside the truck, she slipped and fell under its tires.
Police are investigating the incident not as a homicide, but as a failure to stop the truck following the fatal accident, police spokesman Joe Rios said.

Snakes...no, err...Guns on a plane

Okay, this is really very simple.

Do not take a gun on a plane.

Especially a loaded gun. Capice?

S.A. soldier arrested in airport gun case
-SAEN

NEW YORK -- A San Antonio soldier on leave was arrested in New York after a Long Island-MacArthur Airport baggage inspector found a loaded handgun in her luggage, police said.
A federal Transportation Security Administration agent spotted the four-inch revolver in Army Spc. Vonda Collier's checked bag Sunday while conducting routine inspections, Suffolk County police said.
Collier, 38, was arrested on a charge of criminal possession of a weapon. She was to be arraigned Monday.

Collier had been scheduled to take a Southwest Airlines flight to Texas, police said. Police didn't know whether Collier had a lawyer. Her father, Heyward Collier of San Antonio, said he hadn't heard from her about her arrest and didn't know why she was on Long Island.

He said she had been stationed in Iraq, but had recently been on leave in the United States.
The Defense Department had no immediate information about Collier's status or where she was stationed. Collier's father said she joined the Army about eight years ago.

Anonymously hacked

Look out! Hackers coming.

I'm not a Scientologist, now I'll get attacked by both.

Teenage Scientology Foe Charged
Member of "Anonymous" nabbed for January attack on church web sites

The Smoking Gun--A New Jersey teenager who considered himself a member of "Anonymous," the shadowy underground group that has targeted the Church of Scientology, was charged today with an online assault on the church's web sites earlier this year. Dmitriy Guzner, 18, allegedly was involved in a denial of service attack on Scientology web sites in January, a plot that "contributed to the unavailability of the web sites," according to a criminal information filed today in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

The information, charges that Guzner launched the online attack "because he believed the attack furthered the goals of the anti-Scientology group 'Anonymous,' of which he considered himself a member." Guzner, a Verona, New Jersey resident, has agreed to plead guilty to the felony count, according to a plea agreement he signed yesterday. The agreement estimates that the Church of Scientology suffered losses of between $30,000 and $70,000 as a result of the Internet attack.

The children are in a better place

Good luck on that trial.

Let me know how that whole change of venue thing worked out.

Get back to me if they don't find him guilty. Hah!

Corpus chosen for slain children's trial
Graeme Zielinski - Express-News

A 29-year-old San Antonio man charged with capital murder in what his lawyers have called the “babies under the house” case because of its notoriety will be tried the first week of January in Corpus Christi.

That was the decision Friday by 175th District Court Judge Mary Roman, who last month ordered that Jerry Salazar's trial be moved from Bexar County.
Salazar's lawyers argued that the “inflammatory” tone of news coverage here had made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.
Salazar, in custody since his arrest in 2007, was charged along with his former girlfriend, Valerie Lopez, 21, in the killings of Lopez's children, 14-month-old Sariyah Garcia and 4-month-old Sebastian Lopez. Their bodies were found, stuffed in trash bags, beneath an abandoned South Side triplex in March 2007.

Corpus Christi was to have been the site of Lopez's trial earlier this summer, but she reached a plea deal with prosecutors, sparing her life in exchange for testifying against Salazar. Convicted of capital murder in both killings, she was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
One of Salazar's court-appointed lawyers, Dwight Chumbley, again praised Roman's decision to change the venue and said Corpus Christi was a place “where we'll get a better shot at a fair and impartial jury.”

Prosecutor David Lunan noted that the Nueces County district attorney had not sought the death penalty for about 10 years, though he said he did not expect that would complicate the already-lengthy process of choosing a capital murder jury.
The trial is expected to take about eight weeks.

Another life taken too soon

Update:

I put alcohol as a question in my original posting and I regret placing that as a question. I was not implying he was drunk, I was listing a possible reason. I see that in so many cases that I may be a bit callused to it. For that I apologize to the family and friends of Thomas Andrew Whitley.

As I stated before this is a tragedy and it continues to be a tragedy and it will always be a tragedy, regardless of what caused the accident which appears now to be excessive speed.

Perhaps young Andrew's life, the consequences of his actions, and his ultimate death will prevent other children and young adults from doing the same thing.

Again my deepest condolences to the family of this fine young man taken too soon.

Teen died so close to his home
Colin McDonald - Express-News

Thomas Andrew Whitley, 17, loved to climb mountains, play hacky sack and, like so many teens, drive his car fast.
On Tuesday night, his friends and family gathered to remember the Alamo Heights senior who was driving more than twice the speed limit when he hit the concrete wall of a drainage ditch less than a block from his Terrell Hills home at 1 a.m. Saturday.

There were no skid marks. Whitley was wearing a seat belt.
Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for teenagers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Texas has seen a 22 percent decrease in teenage traffic fatalities since introducing restricted drivers' licenses for new drivers in 2002 and the Teens in the Drivers Seat educational program, the Texas Transportation Institute reported this week.
Department of Public Safety investigators working with Terrell Hills police determined Whitley was traveling 68 to 70 mph when his Toyota Camry went off Morningside Drive, a residential street. They concluded the cause of the accident was excessive speed, according to Police Chief Greg Whitlock.

“We don't know what happened,” said Whitley's mother, Karen Whitley. “We think he was trying to avoid a neighborhood cat or something.”
On Saturday and Sunday nights, most of the Alamo Heights High School senior class gathered at the crash site, where they prayed and constructed a makeshift altar.
“He had some really, really close friends,” Karen Whitley said. “I think he has more now than he realizes.”

Whitley went by his middle name of Andrew. He was excited to start a hacky sack club at his school and was one of the best at it, setting his record of bouncing the beanbag off his feet 420 times without letting it hit the ground.
He recently had become an Eagle Scout after doing a landscaping project at the University of the Incarnate Word. His friends said he was laid-back and spontaneous, except when it came to planning for the project, an outdoor study area for students.

Whitley fell in love with mountains while on a Scouting trip to Mount Livermore in West Texas and came home knowing that climbing them was what he wanted to do, his mother said. Soon the family vacations were dictated by his desire to see Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks.
To get in shape, he started a daily training regime, running 3 miles and doing push-ups.
“It was funny. He was kind of like that pudgy kid with glasses in elementary school and then in high school was ridiculously fit,” said J.T. Looney, a close friend since first grade.
More Scouting trips would take Whitley to Colorado, where he climbed nine of the state's 14,000-foot peaks with his dad and the “crew,” as members of Troop 59 call themselves. His dream was to attend college in that state so he could climb all 53 of those peaks, Karen Whitley said.

Karen Whitley said her son enjoyed driving fast. His friends agreed, saying speed was one of his signatures.
“He loved the adrenaline he got from it,” Looney said. “He used to brag at school that his top speed on Morningside was 70 mph.”
But for a 17-year-old, he was very grounded, his mom and friends agreed. On Friday night, he was returning home from a friend's house.
Motor vehicle crashes account for more than a third of all teenage deaths in the United States, according to the CDC. Driving at night is the leading cause of teenage driving fatalities, said Bernie Fette, a Texas Transportation Institute researcher.
“We conducted interviews with 7,000 teenagers and only 2 percent realize that driving at night is a risk, much less the No. 1 risk,” Fette said.

Original Posting

Drinking? I hope not. (and apparently it isn't or wasn't alcohol)

Sorry. My condolences to his family. Its another tragedy.

Terrell Hills teen killed in morning wreck
By Robert Crowe - Express-News

A 17-year-old boy was killed Saturday morning in a rollover accident near his Terrell Hills home, police said.
The incident happened about 1:20 a.m. in the 600 block of Morningside Drive.

Terrell Hills Police said Thomas Andrew Whitley was driving a 2000 Toyota when it rolled over, killing the youth.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. He was the only person in the vehicle, and no other cars were involved, police said.

Police are still trying to determine what caused the accident.
"As far as the contributing factors, it's all under investigation right now," said Sgt. Rick Trevino of the Terrell Hills Police Department.