DALLAS — Dishaye Stevenson was bubbly – always the life of the party and always loving on her family.
She carried a heavy load, making sure her 16-year-old daughter had it all, serving as a caregiver for her mom who had a stroke and is now partially paralyzed. And to top it off – trying to be the perfect wife.
“[Dishaye] did everything in her power to show him that she loved him no matter what,” Dishaye's sister, Jasmine Stevenson, said.
But, Jasmine Stevenson says somehow that love was not enough.
“It was a lot of red flags,” Jasmine Stevenson said.
They were red flags that their family didn’t catch in time. Police found Dishaye Stevenson’s body Wednesday morning after she’d been shot point blank in the chest. Police said Michael Smith, who is her husband, is to blame.
"Like I just don't understand. I just wanna know why,” Jasmine Stevenson said. “Why would you take my sister from us? Like why?”
Dishaye Stevenson's family told WFAA they knew something was wrong on Tuesday night when her daughter called to say she couldn’t get a hold of her mom.
“She never leave my niece no matter what, she never leaves my Mama no matter what,” Jasmine Stevenson said.
So, Jasmine Stevenson called her cousin, Anita, and they started looking for her. They tracked Dishaye Stevenson's car to the Pleasant Village Apartments, where her father-in-law lives.
“I seen a big handprint on the driver window. And you know, I'm a criminal justice major, so I start trying to use like different context clues,” said Stevenson’s cousin, Anita.
Then came a post from a community blog.
“It said that it was a lady shot to death, which was like three minutes from where we was at,” Anita said.
When they got to the scene, police confirmed the worst and officers began searching for Smith.
They tracked Smith to a home off of Creek Cove, where video showed Dallas PD SWAT outside. But Smith wasn’t there. A short time later, police tracked him to a close by barbershop, where cell phone video captured officers taking him into custody.
“Just get away, get out of the situation. I don't. I don't wish this on. Nobody, nobody,“ Anita said.
Stevenson’s family is sending that message to anyone else who may be going through something similar.
Smith is now being held at the Dallas County jail. He’s been charged with murder.
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