{"id":447513,"date":"2025-12-15T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/447513\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:09:13","slug":"dallas-mesquite-police-investigate-double-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/447513\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas, Mesquite police investigate double murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765757353_782_Dallas-Police-generic-Dallas-PD-DPD-logo.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; A Dallas Police investigation into a double homicide continues after the suspected gunman was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Mesquite, authorities announced.<\/p>\n<p>   Double murder-suicide investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Dallas officers responded to a shooting call in the 15800 block of El Estado Drive in Far North Dallas at 2:40 p.m. on December 11, 2025. The preliminary investigation determined that two people had been shot.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The victims were identified as 24-year-old Arlina Sander, who died at the scene, and 27-year-old Darvilease Washington, who was taken to a local hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Detectives quickly identified a possible suspect and a suspect vehicle registered in Mesquite. As Dallas detectives prepared an arrest warrant, they were notified by the Mesquite Police Department about a shooting in that city.<\/p>\n<p> Suspect found dead in Mesquite <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The suspect in the El Estado homicides was found dead in the 1000 block of Craig Drive in Mesquite, having suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The suspect&#8217;s vehicle was found in the driveway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The Dallas County Medical Examiner has identified the man as 44-year-old Jonathan Lakill Mantoy Jones. His time of death was just after 5 p.m., according to the M.E. report.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The motives and circumstances surrounding the offense are still under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Dallas Police ask anyone with information to contact Detective Paul Johnson at 469-271-6328 or via email at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/mailto:paul.johnson@dallaspolice.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paul.johnson@dallaspolice.gov<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article is from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\/far-north-dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Far North Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/mesquite\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mesquite<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; A Dallas Police investigation into a double homicide continues after the suspected gunman was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":245227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,24346,13412,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-447513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-far-north-dallas","13":"tag-mesquite","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115720681903078262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}