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BALCH SPRINGS, Texas<\/strong> – A man already in jail on a Dallas murder charge<\/a> has now been charged with another killing in North Texas, police say.<\/p>\n The suspect had been connected to the Balch Springs incident in 2023<\/a>. Now that he’s been officially charged, the police department spoke with FOX 4 about the incident for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dallas prisoner charged with Balch Springs murder <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n On Dec. 20, 2023, a masked man with a rifle shot and killed Roderick Butler at an ATM off McKinney Avenue in Uptown Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n Even before an arrest was made, the Dallas Police Department told FOX 4 it believed Butler was targeted, calling it an “isolated incident,” adding, “there\u2019s not a danger to the public.”\u00a0<\/p>\n It took police six days to identify Corey Thompson as the suspect and issue an arrest warrant, but FOX 4 learned the shooting was seemingly random.\u00a0<\/p>\n Now, Thompson is charged in a second murder during the six-day span he was on the run.<\/p>\n A representative of the Balch Springs PD spoke on the crime allegedly committed by Thompson.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Francisco Manriquez, a father to three girls, was dropping off his girlfriend Christmas morning when investigators say Thompson drove by their vehicle and shot Manriquez in the head.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We believe that it\u2019s going to be a random murder. We don\u2019t believe that they were targeted,” Pedro Gonzalez with PSPD said.<\/p>\n FOX 4 spoke with Manriquez\u2019 girlfriend in 2023.<\/p>\n “I couldn\u2019t even look up at the time that they were shooting because everything was so fast. I was scared for my life,” said Josselin Morales. “I just don\u2019t want to keep playing it all over and over again in my head. I\u2019m tired of crying.”<\/p>\n Early on, Balch Springs investigators said Thompson\u2019s white Lincoln SUV was the suspect’s vehicle, and Thompson\u2019s ex-girlfriend told police he had “extreme paranoia” and admitted to “committing two murders.”\u00a0<\/p>\n But before filing an arrest warrant, the department says it\u2019s been waiting on ballistics testing from Dallas County\u2019s crime lab for a year and a half.<\/p>\n “And with the backlog, it just took a long time for us to get those results,” said Gonzalez.<\/p>\n When Thompson was arrested by Dallas police in 2023, officers recovered a “rifle-style firearm.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The Balch Springs arrest warrant reads: “The weapon was found to be consistent in class and characteristics with the ballistic evidence recovered from the Balch Springs crime scene.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The 46-year-old received his Balch Springs murder charge last month. Gonzalez says Thompson is not cooperating “at all” with their detectives.\u00a0<\/p>\n The delay in the charge is not necessarily hurting anything, because Thompson has been in jail since December 2023 while awaiting trial for the Dallas murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n All cases happened while Butler was out on bond for felony criminal mischief, misdemeanor assault and terroristic threats to family.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The Rowlett Police Department tells FOX 4 Thompson is also a person of interest in a shooting at an intersection, during the same period as the two murders.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article came from the Balch Springs Police Department and previous FOX 4 coverage.<\/p>\n Balch Springs<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Corey Thompson (Source: Dallas Police) BALCH SPRINGS, Texas – A man already in jail on a Dallas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,49733,6082,1596,7290,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-71097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-balch-springs","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-county","13":"tag-news","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71097","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=71097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}