DALLAS — Police investigators who linked a shotgun to the Southeast Dallas crime scene where three people were slain on January 4 arrested a suspect on Tuesday.
Jack Diwitt Hunt, 53, was taken into custody without incident on capital murder charges, police said in a statement. Bond was set at $500,000.
The shootings in the 2000 block of Ben Hur Street left three people dead and a fourth with wounds that required hospitalization.
Five days later, police said a tip alerted them to a suspicious person who lives next door to the address where the shootings took place. Detectives who interviewed that person, identified as Jack Hunt, said they determined that he had a shotgun in his vehicle.
Hunt allegedly gave investigators permission to examine his firearm, and ballistics tests linked it to the January 4 shooting.
After the shootings, neighbors reached out to News 8 asking for increased police visibility because of what they they called rampant illegal drug activity.
