DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia is renewing his cry to put violent criminals in jail and to stop the use of ankle monitoring bracelets instead. He says he’s angry a man with a violent past, who threatened his former girlfriend and family who were his neighbors is now charged with shooting and killing the former girlfriend, their joint one year old baby, and the girlfriend’s parents in the last week.
Garcia suggests ankle bracelets do little to stop violent criminals from becoming violent while awaiting trial.
21 year old Byron Carillo is alleged to have pointed a gun at one or more of the family members before. Garcia says he cut off his ankle monitoring bracelet – a condition of release on allegations of violent behavior before – within two minutes of the shootings. Carillo was fitted with that monitor device about two weeks before teh shooting that killed four
One year old Logan De La cruz, 20 year old Vanessa De La Cruz, 33 year old Karina Lopez and 50 year old Jose Lopez died in the shooting; a 15 year old girl and Logan De La Cruz were taken to hosptal, but the baby died less than two hours later. The teen was treated and released. Court records show Carrillo posted bond in late November related to an August, 2021 incident when officials say he threatened Vanessa De La Cruz. Carrillo was waiting for trial, ordered to surrender weapons and have no communication with the victims.
The shooting happened in the 9700 hundred block of Royce Drive. Carrillo is reported to have lived next door the the victims.
The Dallas Morning News reports experts who study family and related violence call these types of cases “family annihilations”. Texas leads the United States in these types of crimes and the suspect often takes their own life as well.
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