MESQUITE (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting a suburban Dallas police officer last week has been discharged from the hospital and booked into jail.
Court records show that Jamie Jaramillo, 37, was arraigned on a capital murder charge late Thursday. Jail records show he was being held Friday in Dallas County jail on $2 million bond. It was unclear if he had an attorney.
Jaramillo is accused of fatally shooting Mesquite Officer Richard Houston, 46, on Dec. 3 while he re sponded to a call about a disturbance in the parking lot of a supermarket.
An arrest warrant affidavit said that when Houston arrived at the parking lot, Jaramillo, his wife, their daughter and another woman were involved in an altercation.
The affidavit says that the daughter told police that she and her mother believed Jaramillo was cheating with another woman. The affidavit says that when Houston went to talk to Jaramillo, he pulled a gun and shot Houston before shooting himself.
The affidavit says Jaramillo's wife then took the gun and threatened the woman with whom she believed Jaramillo was cheating on her. Jaramillo's wife was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault.
Hundreds attended the funeral held Thursday for Houston. He joined the Mesquite department in January 2001.
2 killed after small plane crashes after taking off in Texas
HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities on Friday continued investigating what caused a small plane to crash shortly after taking off from a Houston-area airport, killing the two people on board.
The single-engine aircraft had taken off around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday from West Houston Airport but its wreckage was not found until Thursday afternoon, said Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Richard Standifer.
Authorities believe the plane crashed shortly after takeoff. Airport workers looked for the plane by air but a haze on the ground made their search difficult, Standifer said.
Airport workers located the wreckage in a remote, heavily wooded area and circled around it from above until deputies got to the debris by foot around 1 p.m. Thursday.
Authorities said both people in the plane, a man and a woman, died on impact. The man was ejected from the plane, Standifer said.
The plane was headed to the Houston suburb of Pearland when it crashed.
Officials have not released the names of the two individuals killed in the crash but one had identification with a Houston address, Standifer said.
The plane might be registered out of Rogers, Arkansas, but officials believe the aircraft might have recently been purchased, Standifer said.
