ALLEN — In a win for neighborhood activists, the Allen City Council denied a plan to bring a 12-acre retail-residential complex to the town's downtown district after a nearly four-hour public hearing Tuesday night.
Texas doesn't have "red flag" laws, but North Texas police departments large and small say to call if you think something bad is going to happen. But be ready to give details, they say, unlike the mother of the El Paso mass shooting suspect who called but didn't give her or her son's names.
Patrick Crusius, 21, of Allen, emerged with his hands up from a vehicle that was stopped at an intersection shortly after last Saturday's attack and told officers, "I'm the shooter," Detective Adrian Garcia said in an arrest warrant affidavit.
The woman said she did not believe her son was a threat when she called Allen police and told officers he possessed a rifle.
Police said a caller told them Whataburger staff asked the man, who was pacing and talking to himself, to leave several times. At one point the man grabbed a 6-year-old by the arm and said, "You are coming with me."
A suspect with ties to North Texas, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, was detained after the shooting, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press on Saturday afternoon.
The municipal mess started at a meeting last month, when some residents criticized council member Lauren Doherty for casting the lone vote against a proposed gun range.
Maria Villanueva was last seen wearing a striped shirt with pink shorts and pink sandals, police said. She has shoulder-length brown hair.
Eric Ellwanger, 43, was officially named Allen’s next city manager last week, after serving in an interim role since May 1.
Eric Ellwanger was hired as assistant to the city manager in 2012 and was promoted to assistant city manager two years later.
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