Forney Police Respond to Horrendous Crime

Denise Bell
Post Managing Editor

June 29, 2009

For the second time this month, yellow police tape has gone up at a Forney home while police investigate an incident of domestic violence that went horribly wrong.

Just before midnight on Friday evening, Forney 911 Dispatch received two consecutive “hang-up calls” and after each call when the operator attempted to call the number back, all she could hear was “a woman crying and yelling.”

Police officers were already in route to investigate, when on the fourth call attempt Forney dispatch finally established contact with a female caller in considerable distress.

Dispatch immediately notified all units that the “caller states her husband tried to set her on fire.”

Quickly arriving at the home on Independence Trail in the Brookville Estates section of Forney, the first responding officer requested, “Engine six, would you grab the camera off the engine.”

Seconds later, the dispatch operator asked officers if they would need Care Flight and the lead officer confirmed, “Yes, get one started.”

Almost instantaneously after this transmission, the ambulance arrived and EMT workers hurried into the home to assess the victims’ condition.

After dispatch reported that the “suspect fled in a rented, silver, Chevy Impala” all Forney Police units arrived on the scene, or in the area, as well as a Kaufman County Deputy Sheriff who arrived to offer assistance.

In the home less than five minutes, emergency medical technicians cancelled care flight and after stabilizing the injured women, quickly transported her by ambulance to a Dallas hospital.

Several concerned neighbors stood watching as the women, whose identity will not be released, was brought from her home.

Sitting up on the gurney, she was partially covered with a sheet but talking with EMT personnel as she was loaded into the ambulance. The victim’s condition is unknown at this time but hopefully she will fully recover from her injuries.

Taping off the front of the home to establish and protect the crime scene, Forney Police continued to both investigate and search for the suspect, well into the night.

Arriving on the scene just minutes after first responders, The Post captured the attached photographs and unedited video clips of Forney Police, Fire and Emergency services as they quickly respond to a truly horrendous crime.