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CBS News
16 hours ago
- CBS News
84-year-old man dies after dog attack in Tarrant County, authorities say
An 84-year-old man died Monday following a dog attack at his home in Tarrant County, authorities said. The incident occurred on Slay Street near Ten Mile Bridge Road, just south of Eagle Mountain Lake. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office identified the victim as Ronald Grant Anderson. He was pronounced dead just before 4:30 p.m. Monday. The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office said additional information will be released later Thursday. CBS News Texas will provide updates as more details become available.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Yahoo
Workers pulled from water tank near Tarrant-Parker county line
The Brief Two workers were found unresponsive in a water tank near the Parker/Tarrant County border Friday, prompting an investigation. Co-workers called 911 after losing contact with the men, who were performing water infrastructure checks. Their current condition remains unknown. An investigation is underway after two workers were found in a water tank near the border of Parker and Tarrant County. Deputies with the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office were called to the 12000 block of Aledo Road after two men were found. The men were performing checks of water infrastructure in the area. When co-workers could not reach them, they called 911. By the time rescue crews arrived, the men were found unresponsive. What we don't know The condition of the workers is unknown. The Source Information in this article comes from the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office.
CBS News
05-06-2025
- General
- CBS News
3-year-old girl dies after possible drowning at Eagle Mountain Lake, officials say
A 3-year-old girl has died following a possible drowning near West Bay Marina at Eagle Mountain Lake in northwest Tarrant County, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office. Authorities were called to the scene around 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Deputies found the child on the ground after she had been pulled from the lake. She was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Investigators are working to determine how the child entered the water. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner will determine the official cause of death. CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Family of woman who died in Tarrant County jail sues for medical records
The family of a woman who says the woman 'essentially starved to death' in the Tarrant County jail filed a lawsuit Monday demanding the county turn over documents related to her death. Kimberly Phillips, 56, died in custody of the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office on Feb. 18. She was moved from the county jail to John Peter Smith Hospital on Feb. 15 after being put on round-the-clock medical watch in the jail for an unspecified amount of time. She was booked into the jail on Jan. 25, according to county records. Her family believes she died of starvation after not being fed according to her vegetarian diet. The family's attorney, Houston-based Chidi Anunobi, said in a news release that reports indicate Phillips had not been fed since Jan. 27. He cited a private autopsy report commissioned by her family that attributed her death to 'complications of anorexia/starvation.' The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office ruled her death to be caused by 'complications from dehydration and malnutrition.' The family is asking a Tarrant County district court to compel the Sheriff's Office and the Medical Examiner's Office to release medical records it has requested. Those offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment by the Star-Telegram late Monday. Court records show that Anunobi requested Phillips' records in late February. The Tarrant County District Attorney's Office appealed to the Texas Attorney General's Office to withhold them on grounds that they relate to a pending criminal investigation. The Attorney General's Office granted the appeal on May 2, permitting the county to withhold the records. In the news release sent Monday, Anunobi said his client's case is part of a 'persistent pattern of stonewalling and withholding of information to the families of inmates who have died while under the custody of Tarrant County Sheriff's Office.' The county used the 'pretext of criminal investigation' to refuse Phillips' family the records, he said, adding that 'the little-known circumstances surrounding Ms. Phillips's death suggest possible abuse, denial of necessary care, and systemic failure to ensure inmate safety.' The District Attorney's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Monday. Anunobi's office filed a petition for a writ of mandamus, a legal remedy that seeks to compel the government to fulfill its official duties or rectify an abuse of power. It is 'an extraordinary remedy, which should only be used in exceptional circumstances of peculiar emergency or public importance,' according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Among the records the family is seeking to force the government to release are Phillips' autopsy report, medical records, lab reports, diagnoses, pharmaceutical records and videos showing her body, among other records, court records show. The circumstances warranting a writ of mandamus in Phillips' case, Anunobi argued in the court filing, include 'a long and well-documented history of inmate abuse, preventable deaths, and systemic obstruction of transparency' at the Tarrant County jail. A total of 70 people have died in the jail since Sheriff Bill Waybourn took office in 2017, according to data from the Sheriff's Office. The death of Robert Miller in 2019 showed a '[d]eliberate indifference to serious medical needs,' the lawsuit alleges. Miller died after being pepper-sprayed in August of that year. The medical examiner ruled his death natural due to sickle-cell disease, but a Star-Telegram investigation found that Miller did not have sickle-cell disease. The more likely explanation was an excessive use of pepper spray, experts told the Star-Telegram. The May 2020 birth and death of the daughter of Chasity Congious, a woman with an intellectual disability who gave birth in her cell without guards knowing, displays a '[f]ailure to monitor mentally ill or vulnerable inmates,' the lawsuit states. And the June 2020 death of Javonte Myers, who lay dead in his cell for six hours before guards found him, serves as historical precedent for the falsification of records, the lawsuit states. In September 2023, Tarrant County paid a $1 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by Myers' family alleging jailers had falsified observation logs. 'Unfortunately, Ms. Phillips's case is not an isolated incident,' Anunobi said in the news release. 'Over the past few years, Tarrant County Sheriff's Office has seen a troubling increase in inmate deaths, with many cases involving similar allegations of abuse, neglect, and medical indifference.'
