VIOLENT CRIME IS UP

Violent crime in Dallas has risen 10 percent in the first six months of 2015, compared with the same period the previous year.

The number of robberies, aggravated assaults, murders and rapes have increased, but property crimes such as theft and burglary are down, leaving the overall crime rate flat over last year.

Dallas saw 20 murders in June, the highest number since August 2013. Several violent crimes took place in our neighborhood between June 15 and July 15.

A 12-year-old Old East Dallas boy was shot in the leg following a midday argument at a corner store. Shortly after the shooting, at an apartment in the 3500 block of Munger, police pulled over a vehicle that fit the description of the suspected shooters.

Three men were arrested and charged with capital murder June 29 after they shot and killed Maria del Carmen Velasquez during a robbery in Old East Dallas.

Miguel Angel Machado, Richard Cardoso Jr. and Reynaldo Paloma tried to rob a game room in the in the 4800 block of East Grand. The business owner fled the adjacent mini mart, which he also owns. When people began running out of that business, the men started shooting, according to police. They killed Velasquez, who worked at the store, and shot business owner Mike Albanna eight times in the leg. Police arrested the suspects after a 911 call that they were trying to break into a nearby home.

And in mid-June, 47-year-old Juvenal Delbosque Jr. was arrested after fighting with his wife and firing shots at a graduation party in Old East Dallas. Police used a taser on Delbosque, but he still tried to run inside the house. When Delbosque pulled a gun on police, officer Darren Burch shot him. Delbosque, who was on parole at the time of the shooting, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

— Rachel Stone

age of Gregory Wayne Davidson, a habitual criminal who Dallas Police believe has been robbing banks in the Lakewood area

Abrams, the address of Veritex Community Bank, which someone fitting Davidson’s description robbed on June 30

SOURCE: Dallas Police Department