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Cedar Hill Amber Alert Canceled

Written By Unknown on Senin, 15 April 2013 | 19.31

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The Amber Alert, which was issued on Friday for 12-year-old Sommer Brown, has been canceled.

According to the Cedar Hill Police Department, Sommer Brown and her mother Lisa Elizabeth Brown, were found Sunday morning just outside of Indianapolis.

Lisa Brown is now in police custody and arrangements are being made for Sommer Brown to be returned to her father in Texas.

Corky Brown, the public information officer for the Cedar Hill Police Department, tells NBC 5, Sommer Brown is safe and unharmed.

Cedar Hill police issued the Amber Alert for Sommer Brown on Friday stating they believe she was "in grave or immediate danger.

Police said they believe the pair were traveling in a gray/pewter 2006 Ford Expedition with a paper Carmax tag that reads 86P 3357 and expires on May 19, 2013. On Sunday morning, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis told NBC 5 the car had been found just outside of the city.

On Friday, Sommer Brown's stepsister told NBC 5, "I'm worried for her safety and her well-being and ... we need to find her ASAP ... because I don't know what her mother could do to her."

Cedar Hill police said Lisa Brown, an Atlanta schoolteacher who is currently on spring break, came to North Texas to try to get temporary custody of her daughter.

The girl's father was awarded custody about three weeks ago.

Police said Lisa Brown filed a police report accusing her estranged husband of sexually abusing his daughter. Cedar Hill police said they looked into the claims, found they were false and arrested

Brown on suspicion of filing a false police report on Tuesday.

Brown bonded out of a jail on Wednesday and sought an emergency temporary custody order through family courts on Thursday but was denied, police said.

After the court denied her custody, Brown tried to take her daughter out of school, but the school denied her request because she doesn't have custodial rights, police said.

Investigators said Lisa Brown drove to her estranged husband's neighborhood in the 100 block of Hannah Circle at approximately 6 p.m. on Thursday and called her daughter.

Dews said she was sitting with her stepsister inside the house while she talked with her mother on the phone.

Her mother told her stepsister "how much she missed her, she couldn't live without her, and she wasn't going to live without her, and that she wasn't going to stop trying to get her," Dews said.

She said Sommer Brown went outside "because her mother begged her for a hug."

When Sommer Brown finally came out of the house, neighbors told police they heard Lisa Brown yelling at her daughter to get in the car. When she finally complied, Brown sped away, witnesses said.

Dews said she ran after the car, with her stepsister staring at her through the window.

"She was, like, looking at me like to see what our next step was going to be ... because she knew that she wasn't planning on leaving with her mother," Dews said.

Family members say their top concern is getting Sommer Brown home safe.

Dews said she wants to know that her stepsister safe and wants her back home. She also said she wants her stepsister to know that her family is looking for her, saying that she knows Sommer Brown doesn't want to be with her mother.

"She had no intentions on ever seeing her mother again," she said.

Lisa Brown has ties to Houston, Atlanta and Chicago, according to Cedar Hill police.

NBC 5's Amanda Guerra contributed to this report.

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Six Year Old Shoots Himself In Church Parking Lot

Catherine Ross, NBC 5 News

Man is in jail after 6-year-old boy shoots himself during a parental custody transfer at a local church.

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Dallas police officers are investigating how a 6-year-old boy got his hands on a loaded handgun and shot himself in the middle of a church parking lot Saturday evening.

It happened in the 11400 Ferguson Road, near the Dallas and Garland city borders.

According to the police report, it started as part of a custody exchange just after 8:00 p.m. Then the boy climbed into a car belonging to 24-year-old William Ross of Dallas and found a loaded gun.

Police said the child picked up the gun, pulled the trigger and shot himself in the chest. He remains in critical condition at Children's Medical Center Dallas. His boy's name has not been released.

Police arrested Ross. They said he left the gun easily accessible for the child to find. He's being charged with injury to a child - serious bodily injury.

Ross is being held on a $15,000 bond in the Dallas County Jail.

Police have not told NBC DFW the relationship between Ross and the injured child.

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Texas Wrestler Fights For The Forgotten

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He's a former he's a former Texas state high school wrestling champion who made a name for himself as an Ultimate Fighter. He was actually the youngest ever to appear on a reality show for the organization. But that's not close to the most interesting thing about Justin Wren.

A video of Justin Wren recently went viral. It shows a group of Congan children petting the blonde hair on his arms. They'd never seen a man with blonde hair, and they've never seen hair on a man's arm! The video is enchanting. But to really appreciate the video and how Justin Wren wound up in the Congo, you first have to know where he came from.

Wren was a ten time state champion wrestler in Texas, a five time all-American and a two time national champion. But after high school, Justin didn't take the conventional route. He went straight to the Olympic training center.

And his career was off and running, but Justin knew something wasn't right.

"Wrestling and fighting didn't fulfill me," Wren said. "So at 23-years-old, even though I had fought in the UFC, and been a national champion wrestler, and I wrestled in Moscow. I kick boxed in Amsterdam. I was the main event at the hard rock in Las Vegas."

"I was depressed, so I was drinking and drugging, I even attempted suicide. I hit rock bottom at 23."

And in the process he let a lot of people down. He missed his best friend's wedding. Made worse by the fact that he was the best man! "After you miss your best friend's wedding. Being the best man, and after you hurt everyone around you, and you're just a hurt person that hurts people, you want to hurt yourself. So that's where I got."

But a childhood friend got through to Justin and convinced him to go on a retreat. Justin found religion, and friends, and meaning to his life.

Justin's decision to give up drugs coincided with a conscious decision to give back. Now he's decided to give up first world comfort to live in a hut for a year in a third world country. His emptied a home in Colorado, sold most of his belongings and what's left is on a houseboat in North Texas.

"About a year into me breaking free from all of the drugs and the drinking, I just wanted to go from always fighting against people to finally fighting for people," Wren said. "And when I did that it changed everything for me."

After some research, this Texas sized man, with his new Texas sized heart, decided to help the smallest of people. He became a voice for the enslaved pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"Everyone else calls them the forest people," Wren said. "They called themselves the forest people, now they call themselves the forgotten people, because they've even been forgotten as humans."

The Pygmies have been called half man half animal by many of their fellow countrymen. They have suffered cannibalism, and they've been slaves for years. And the DRC is arguably the most dangerous place on Earth. Still Justin spent a month there on two different occasions.

"I woke up sleeping in a twiggy leaf hut, literally this tall, I'm having to crawl into it, and then it's the rain forest, so it's raining, so literally I woke up, several times sinking in mud!," Justin recalled.

But he had made a connection. "They said 'can you help us have a voice, we have none.' And I said I can absolutely help you with that."

Although after his first trip, Justin wasn't so sure. "If there was one place on this planet I never wanted to go to again, it was Congo. Then I thought, 'what if nobody's fighting for these people, what if I'm supposed to fight for them.'"

The second time he went, he became family. Justin is still awed at the connection.

"I'm 6'3" 285 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes," Wren said. "The average Pygmy man is 4'7". We're just complete opposites. But our hearts are connected and we're family. They gave me the name Efeosa. And Efeosa means the man who loves us. And that was my goal. Was to go there and just love them well."

The hard part was seeing the people he now loved, hurt. The stories are endless and each one more unbelievable than the last.

Justin smiles when he talks of his buddy Harry.

"He's family, he gets paid after 10-12 hours of work, and he might get one or two minnows," Wren said. "I saw him get minnows. His wife was home sick, but you don't work you don't eat. So he had to share his two minnows with his sick wife."

"Another woman was carrying a 120 pound bag of charcoal," Wren said. "Her slave masters tied a rope around her head, two men put charcoal on her back and she walked 4 to 5 kilometers through the jungle. And she got paid literally a mouse pad sized piece of goat fur, and that was what she was paid to eat."

And Justin's tone drops as he talks about a young family member, Andi Bo.

"One of the toughest things I saw was Andi Bo, an innocent infant denied hospital treatment and dying," Wren said. "When I went to pick him up that's when he started bleeding out of his ears. And the next day I buried him. And while I was digging his grave they told me to go ahead and dig his mom's grave."

The family knew Andi Bo's mom had the same parasite that took her son's life. They figured it wouldn't be long. But Justin wouldn't have any of it. "I was like no it's not over yet, and their like it's about to be, because she'll get denied hospital treatment too." Justin got Andi Bo's mom to the hospital and made sure she got treatment.

Now he's headed back to the DRC. This time for a year. He'll live in a hut barely bigger than his enormous frame. And he'll do everything he can to help. Working with Shalom University, they'll barter with the slave masters, offering things like money and water wells for the freedom of Pygmies.

In a year, Justin thinks he might be able to see 1000 of his friends and his new family finally free.
Justin dreams of seeing this goal become a reality.

"More important to me than my UFC fighting or anything here is seeing that my actual family," Wren said. "They've brought me in as family, to see that they have their freedom. My goal is to see them loved. to fight for the forgotten, to see they know that they're not forgotten, that people care about them, that their life is worth living, and that they're loved. So I'm going over there to love the unloved."

To be clear, Justin isn't doing this on his own. He's working, as he said, with Shalom University in the Congo. They've been working on this same effort for seven years. Justin calls his part of the program "fight for the forgotten".

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West Nile Spraying in Richardson Delayed

Catherine Ross, NBC 5 News

Four traps have turned up mosquito samples testing positive for the West Nile Virus within Richardson city limits.

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The city of Richardson is starting its efforts to prevent West Nile Virus earlier than it ever has before.

Richardson began testing samples of trapped mosquitoes on April 1^st – or one full month ahead of schedule.

By the middle of the month, four samples in three separate neighborhoods returned mosquitoes testing positive for the virus.

"These were mosquitoes that survived the winter, somewhere holed up in a storm drain or in some protected area," said Richardson Health Department Director Bill Alsup. "They fed late last fall, got infected with the virus through an infected bird. They recently emerged with the warm weather, and we caught them as they came out."

The city planned to begin its ground spraying campaign in those three affected areas on Sunday night, but that plan was delayed because of the wind.

According to a Richardson news release, wind gusts up to 15 miles an hour prevents the proper application of the insecticide.

The city said, weather permitting, it will try to spray on Monday or Tuesday night.

The city council has also approved increasing the level of surveillance for the disease within city limits, including the city mosquito monitoring program as well as its response to positive samples.

"The really important key is that we're out in front of it more so than we ever have been before in the state of Texas, here in Richardson and in Dallas County," Alsup said. "We're hopeful this early and hard attack will make for a better summer for us this year."

Richardson's strategy involves spraying affected areas two nights in a row.

The city will not spray if wind gusts exceed 10 miles per hour or if temperatures drop below 50 degrees.

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Family Member: Williams Is Prime Suspect

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Source: Williams "Person Of Interest" In DA Murders

Source tells NBC DFW that former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace is a "Person of Interest" in the murder cases of the county's District Attorney, his wife and Assistant District Attorney.

Agents Search Seagoville Storage Units

Multiple agencies searched a Seagoville storage facility on Saturday, the same agencies investigating the murders of Mark Hasse and Mike and Cynthia McLelland.

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Amber Alert Issued for Cedar Hill Girl

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Cedar Hill police have issued an Amber Alert for a 12-year-old girl they believe is "in grave or immediate danger."

Sommer Brown is a black girl who is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 90 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a black tank top and black basketball shorts.

Police believe she is with her mother, 43-year-old Lisa Elizabeth Brown, a black woman who is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a black blazer and a light green shirt.

Police said they believe the pair may be traveling in a gray/pewter 2006 Ford Expedition with a paper Carmax tag that reads 86P 3357 and expires on May 19, 2013.

"I'm worried for her safety and her well-being and ... we need to find her ASAP ... because I don't know what her mother could do to her," said Madison Dews, Sommer Brown's stepsister.

Cedar Hill police said Lisa Brown, an Atlanta schoolteacher who is currently on spring break, came to North Texas to try to get temporary custody of her daughter.

The girl's father was awarded custody about three weeks ago.

Police said Lisa Brown filed a police report accusing her estranged husband of sexually abusing his daughter. Cedar Hill police said they looked into the claims, found they were false and arrested Brown on suspicion of filing a false police report on Tuesday.

Brown bonded out of a jail on Wednesday and sought an emergency temporary custody order through family courts on Thursday but was denied, police said.

After the court denied her custody, Brown tried to take her daughter out of school, but the school denied her request because she doesn't have custodial rights, police said.

Investigators said Lisa Brown drove to her estranged husband's neigbhorhood in the 100 block of Hannah Circle at approximately 6 p.m. on Thursday and called her daughter.