By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX – The 60 year old disbarred attorney who shot his financial advisers Monday is dead.
Police say Robert Mustard Jr. died Wednesday afternoon. He shot father and son, Richard and Christopher Smith, then turned the gun on himself.
No charges will be filed in the case.
Detectives say Mustard was a disgruntled client. The 66 year old father was shot four times in the legs. His 39 year old son was shot in the neck. Both are expected to recover.
Big Settlement In Dallas Bait Car Crash
The city of Dallas has settled a lawsuit over the death of an 83 year old Oak Cliff woman who died in a crash with a Police "bait car."
Bait cars, driven by would-be car thieves, can be remotely shut down by police, but in this instance there were procedural and technical issues that delayed the shut-down command until 3 seconds "after' the high speed crash on a residential street.
Dallas City Council member Dave Neumann says he pushed for immediate changes.
Neumann: the ability to turn off the bait car instantaneously as opposed to waiting for it to get to a final destination. It's a combination of communications issues ah dispatch.
The bait car program was suspended for a time. Police say they adjusted software and communications procedures to take "seconds" out of the process.
Yesterday, Councilman Neumann and colleagues approved a quarter-million dollar payment to the family of Annie Reyes.
Trinity River Project Money Shuffled
The Corps of Engineers is getting nearly five million dollars in Dallas bond money designated for the Trinity River "lakes". It will fund a Corps study on the levees, which must meet new standards before any major construction on the Trinity River project.
Council member Angela Hunt wanted to take that money from the Trinity Toll Road account.
Hunt: Why would we want to stay fixated, almost pathologically, on a road that's not going to get built, when we could create some legitimacy, bring back some credibility to this project.
Hunt says toll road money for parks, amenities and flood protection would get the project going more quickly.
Her motion failed to get a second.
Mayor Tom Leppert says this is an "advance" of funds, and the city will get that money back. He also says citizens want the entire Trinity project to go forward.