@BikeLaneSpencer Can I ask you an honest question. Whats in place/what guardrails keep this project from becoming a meme like California’s high speed project. Why is one of the first projects this group did was try to lease a building for I believe 32 million? The money pit is people’s fears.
AUSTIN MAN walks up to a couple in the parking lot outside Macy's at The Domain on Sunday afternoon, shoots the man multiple times, then forces woman into a car, and drives off with her.
Leonel Galvan Hernandez was out on bond for another aggravated assault with a deadly weapon when he did it.
Sheriff's deputies arrested him for that one in February. A judge set bond at $5,000 and issued an emergency protective order. He was back out two days after his arrest.
Then the case sat. The protective order expired in June. Eight months later, DA Jose Garza's office still hasn't indicted him. The case has been pushed to a sixth pre-indictment setting, scheduled for Nov. 18.
The male victim at the Domain survived after being rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The woman was later found unharmed.
Two arrests for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in eight months. Zero indictments. Then one man shot and a woman kidnapped at a shopping mall.
@chitoforatx The fact you can raise any tax percent without audits on existing taxes is mind numbing. I’ve been here 10 years and seen my quality of life go down as taxes increase.
AUSTIN MAN sprints across UT campus naked chasing female joggers, stops to masturbate in a parking lot beside the LBJ Library, then hides in a port-a-potty as officers arrive.
Patrick Sweeney once slipped inside police headquarters and pedaled off on a marked patrol bike.
The JW Marriott has banned him three separate times, including for sleeping shirtless on their couch, but he is never prosecuted for trespassing.
He was also caught climbing the Governor's Mansion fence, while still wearing the hospital wristband from his most recent release.
Last week, he was arrested for the 44th time, this time at Target across from UT campus. He was charged with felony theft, indecent exposure, drug paraphernalia, and public intoxication.
Every felony either declined or reduced. Every misdemeanor pled to time served.
44 arrests. 24 formal charges. 0 jury trials.
Wild this isn't getting news coverage.
A homeless woman in Austin gets shot dead in the neck and robbed.
Cops figure out pretty fast it was a repeat violent offender Austin prosecutors had already let walk on aggravated robberies, drug felonies, gun charges, plus a separate shooting where he put three bullets in a someone’s leg over a crack baggie.
Cops get the guy on his own home camera, six minutes after the murder, bagging up his bloody clothes, telling a woman to mop the floor and lie to the cops, and literally saying out loud “homicide will be in this hoe.”
DA José Garza’s office looked at all of it and dropped the murder charge two weeks ago.
The man is back on the street.
AUSTIN MAN shot a homeless woman in an East Austin parking lot last year. But the DA just let him walk.
Frank Bonner was arrested January 2025 for the murder of Kelly Meazell, who was found in a pool of blood on Manor Road, after Bonner apparently beat her up and shot her. The murder bond was $1 million.
Before Bonner killed her, he was charged 33 times in Travis County, including:
• 3 aggravated robberies - all dismissed
• Multiple drug felonies (cocaine, meth) - dismissed
• Criminal mischief $30K-$150K, evading w/ vehicle, tampering with evidence - dismissed
• Contraband in a correctional facility - declined
• Possession of firearm as felon - declined
Then Kelly was murdered.
What happened next:
• April 2025: DA rejects the murder charge. No charges filed.
• March 2026: His pending aggravated assault with a deadly weapon from October 2024 is dismissed.
With no trial or convictions, Bonner is back on the street, while Kelly Meazell is still dead and her family is still grieving.
@BaylorAthletics@BaylorMBB@BaylorBookstore My friends are already lost in the snow and ice, gone searching for this fable. Why would you do this, why won’t you put it online?! What do I tell their children?!