The Brief
- A suspect, Corey Thompson, is now charged with a second murder while he was on the run in December 2023.
- Thompson is accused of killing Francisco Manriquez in Balch Springs just days after allegedly killing Roderick Butler in Dallas.
- Ballistics testing delays at the Dallas County crime lab contributed to the delay in the second murder charge.
BALCH SPRINGS, Texas – A man already in jail on a Dallas murder charge has now been charged with another killing in North Texas, police say.
The suspect had been connected to the Balch Springs incident in 2023. Now that he’s been officially charged, the police department spoke with FOX 4 about the incident for the first time.
Dallas prisoner charged with Balch Springs murder
The backstory:
On Dec. 20, 2023, a masked man with a rifle shot and killed Roderick Butler at an ATM off McKinney Avenue in Uptown Dallas. …