{"id":449107,"date":"2025-12-15T17:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/449107\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:38:14","slug":"man-accused-of-killing-2-in-dallas-then-dying-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/449107\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing 2 in Dallas then dying from self-inflicted gunshot identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials have identified a man who was later found dead after he was accused of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/12\/11\/2-injured-in-a-shooting-in-far-north-dallas-thursday-afternoon-officials-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/12\/11\/2-injured-in-a-shooting-in-far-north-dallas-thursday-afternoon-officials-say\/\"> fatally shooting two people<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/far-north-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/far-north-dallas\/\">Far North Dallas<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jonathan Lakill Mantoy Jones, 44, was found shot in the 1000 block of Craig Drive in Mesquite on Thursday, around 5:13 p.m., according to the Dallas County medical examiner\u2019s office and Dallas police. Jones\u2019 death was deemed a suicide by the medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Only a few hours before his death, Jones was accused by police of shooting and killing two people in the 15800 block of El Estado Drive around 2:40 p.m..<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">When officers arrived at the location, they found 24-year-old Arlina Sanders and 27-year-old Darvilease Washington. Police said Washington was taken to a local hospital, where he died. Sanders died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">During the investigation, detectives were able to find information on a possible suspect and a suspect vehicle registered in Mesquite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">While preparing the arrest warrant, police said detectives were notified by Mesquite police about a shooting in their city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officers found Jones at the location and the suspect vehicle in the driveway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials said the motives and circumstances surrounding this incident are still under investigation. Police are asking anyone with information on this case to contact detective Paul Johnson at 469-271-6328 or by email at paul.johnson@dallaspolice.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have identified a man who was later found dead after he was accused of fatally shooting two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,4219,1596,24346,4221,13412,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-449107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-far-north-dallas","12":"tag-homicide","13":"tag-mesquite","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115724806085192568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449107","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=449107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}