True crime: A deadly Oak Cliff weekend

Two Oak Cliff neighbors were shot and killed in separate incidents within blocks of each other over two days in May. Police responded to a call Friday, May 6, and found 48-year-old Ana Ramos Pacheco dead from a gunshot wound at 2510 W. Brooklyn. No suspect has been identified in that case. The following day, a man was shot and killed a few blocks away in the 2400 block of Grafton. In that case, police say 25-year-old Jose Matilde Reyes shot and killed an unidentified man after a fight. The Dallas Police Department also reported a third homicide at 1:45 p.m. Friday, May 6, in West Dallas, in the 2800 block of Guymon. Altogether, there were three murders in Dallas on one Friday alone; a third occurred in Far North Dallas. The murder rate in Dallas is on an upswing, having nearly doubled since last year. Overall violent crime is up about 30 percent over last year.

citizens group Safer Better Dallas wants to raise to buy ‘less-lethal’ firearms for the Dallas Police Department

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-millimeter sponge guns are designed to stop someone in their tracks without breaking the skin. Instead, the ammo expands on impact, causing pain and incapacitating a suspect

$19 million Better Safer Dallas has raised for DPD equipment and programs to date