Post by CC_Varmints on Aug 8, 2011 17:38:49 GMT -6
Three arrested and one sought in killing of former Denison football standout.
Three people were in custody this weekend following the Friday morning shooting of former Denison High School football standout Dreasean “D.J.” Jones.
The 19-year-old Jones was shot in the back in Cartwright, Oklahoma, as he tried to flee the gunmen during the early morning hours Friday, it was reported by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations. The shooting occurred between 6 and 6:30 a.m., said Jessica Brown, public information officer for the OSBI.
According to initial reports, Mr. Jones had left his vehicle and was moving away from a following vehicle when he was shot. Further details remained sketchy throughout the weekend.
Harold Hass was the first suspect arrested, in Grayson County Friday night after a two-hour chase with Texas law enforcement authorities. Brown said two others, Dylan Kelley and Alohra Hicks, were also arrested Friday on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery. They, she said, were being held in Oklahoma jails.
Brown said a murder warrant was issued for Dustin Metcalf, but he was still at large late Saturday. Metcalf is described as a 6-foot-tall white male, weighing 230 pounds. He has brown eyes and strawberry blonde hair.
Rickey Wheeler of the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office said Hass met his father in Denison at around 5 p.m Friday and the two got into a Ford SUV with the son driving. When authorities attempted to stop the Ford, the vehicle pursuit began.
The pursuit went east on Highway 69 from Denison and south on Craft Road, the sheriff’s office reported. The suspect reportedly crossed four lanes of traffic on U.S. Highway 82 without slowing down or stopping. Eventually the pursuit ended up Ward Neal Road, east of Sherman, where the father, who was a passenger, jumped from the vehicle and was taken into custody.
Wheeler said Harold Hass abandoned the Ford when it ran out of gas on Ward Neal Road. He then fled on foot. A McKinney Police K-9 eventually tracked the suspect and authorities arrested him. Authorities then sent the younger Hass to the hospital for injuries he received during his capture as well as for heat exhaustion.
Mr. Jones, who was a four-star recruit as the 48th-ranked player in the state and 27th-ranked running back in the country for the Class of 2010, according to Rivals.com, committed to Texas A&M University but returned home without playing there. He also had offers from several other major programs, including Florida, Arkansas, Baylor and Kansas.
In his senior season at Denison High School, Mr. Jones ran for 2,257 yards and 30 touchdowns on 268 carries and caught 30 passes for 431 yards and four touchdowns as Denison went 13-2 and reached the state semifinals before losing to eventual champion Aledo.
He was a second-team all-state selection after earning first-team all-state honors as a junior, when he ran for a school record 2,646 yards and finished with 39 total touchdowns, 35 of them rushing.
He graduated as the school’s all-time leading rusher with 5,518 yards and second in rushing touchdowns — 68 — to Corey Robertson’s mark of 73. Jones had 28 100-yard games, also a Jacket record.
Mr. Jones also holds the Denison single-game records for yards, rushing touchdowns, total touchdowns and points after his 434-yard, eight TD (seven rushing) performance in a 65-54 victory over McKinney in 2008.
The shooting Friday cut short the life of a what seemed to be a complicated but talented young man who stood on the cusp of a life torn between two worlds. On the one hand, officials at Prairie View A&M University confirmed Saturday that Mr. Jones had spoken with people in the school’s athletics department about returning to football. University spokesperson Sheleah Reed said coaches at the school remember talking to Mr. Jones about the possibility of him walking onto the team in the fall.
On the other hand, Mr. Jones seemed to be struggling off the gridiron. Grayson County court records show he was arrested in May 2010 for theft of property in Grayson County and then again in December for assault causing bodily injury and evading arrest. He was also arrested in February 2011 and charged with possession of a controlled substance. All of the charges were misdemeanors.
Attorney John Hunter Smith was appointed to represent Mr. Jones on the theft of property charge. No attorney had been appointed in the other cases, but Grayson County judicial records show that Mr. Jones failed to appear for arraignment on those charges.
In Bryan County, Oklahoma, court records show that Dresean Jaron Jones was charged, in December 2010, with several offenses and was placed on probation and ordered to attend anger management classes.
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Three people were in custody this weekend following the Friday morning shooting of former Denison High School football standout Dreasean “D.J.” Jones.
The 19-year-old Jones was shot in the back in Cartwright, Oklahoma, as he tried to flee the gunmen during the early morning hours Friday, it was reported by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations. The shooting occurred between 6 and 6:30 a.m., said Jessica Brown, public information officer for the OSBI.
According to initial reports, Mr. Jones had left his vehicle and was moving away from a following vehicle when he was shot. Further details remained sketchy throughout the weekend.
Harold Hass was the first suspect arrested, in Grayson County Friday night after a two-hour chase with Texas law enforcement authorities. Brown said two others, Dylan Kelley and Alohra Hicks, were also arrested Friday on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery. They, she said, were being held in Oklahoma jails.
Brown said a murder warrant was issued for Dustin Metcalf, but he was still at large late Saturday. Metcalf is described as a 6-foot-tall white male, weighing 230 pounds. He has brown eyes and strawberry blonde hair.
Rickey Wheeler of the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office said Hass met his father in Denison at around 5 p.m Friday and the two got into a Ford SUV with the son driving. When authorities attempted to stop the Ford, the vehicle pursuit began.
The pursuit went east on Highway 69 from Denison and south on Craft Road, the sheriff’s office reported. The suspect reportedly crossed four lanes of traffic on U.S. Highway 82 without slowing down or stopping. Eventually the pursuit ended up Ward Neal Road, east of Sherman, where the father, who was a passenger, jumped from the vehicle and was taken into custody.
Wheeler said Harold Hass abandoned the Ford when it ran out of gas on Ward Neal Road. He then fled on foot. A McKinney Police K-9 eventually tracked the suspect and authorities arrested him. Authorities then sent the younger Hass to the hospital for injuries he received during his capture as well as for heat exhaustion.
Mr. Jones, who was a four-star recruit as the 48th-ranked player in the state and 27th-ranked running back in the country for the Class of 2010, according to Rivals.com, committed to Texas A&M University but returned home without playing there. He also had offers from several other major programs, including Florida, Arkansas, Baylor and Kansas.
In his senior season at Denison High School, Mr. Jones ran for 2,257 yards and 30 touchdowns on 268 carries and caught 30 passes for 431 yards and four touchdowns as Denison went 13-2 and reached the state semifinals before losing to eventual champion Aledo.
He was a second-team all-state selection after earning first-team all-state honors as a junior, when he ran for a school record 2,646 yards and finished with 39 total touchdowns, 35 of them rushing.
He graduated as the school’s all-time leading rusher with 5,518 yards and second in rushing touchdowns — 68 — to Corey Robertson’s mark of 73. Jones had 28 100-yard games, also a Jacket record.
Mr. Jones also holds the Denison single-game records for yards, rushing touchdowns, total touchdowns and points after his 434-yard, eight TD (seven rushing) performance in a 65-54 victory over McKinney in 2008.
The shooting Friday cut short the life of a what seemed to be a complicated but talented young man who stood on the cusp of a life torn between two worlds. On the one hand, officials at Prairie View A&M University confirmed Saturday that Mr. Jones had spoken with people in the school’s athletics department about returning to football. University spokesperson Sheleah Reed said coaches at the school remember talking to Mr. Jones about the possibility of him walking onto the team in the fall.
On the other hand, Mr. Jones seemed to be struggling off the gridiron. Grayson County court records show he was arrested in May 2010 for theft of property in Grayson County and then again in December for assault causing bodily injury and evading arrest. He was also arrested in February 2011 and charged with possession of a controlled substance. All of the charges were misdemeanors.
Attorney John Hunter Smith was appointed to represent Mr. Jones on the theft of property charge. No attorney had been appointed in the other cases, but Grayson County judicial records show that Mr. Jones failed to appear for arraignment on those charges.
In Bryan County, Oklahoma, court records show that Dresean Jaron Jones was charged, in December 2010, with several offenses and was placed on probation and ordered to attend anger management classes.
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