{"id":87733,"date":"2025-07-24T04:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/87733\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T04:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:32:11","slug":"sisters-seek-justice-for-brother-killed-in-hit-and-run-in-dallas-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/87733\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters seek justice for brother killed in hit-and-run in Dallas \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three sisters are seeking justice for their brother who was killed in a hit-and-run over the weekend. <\/p>\n

Dallas police said 66-year-old James Watkins died at the scene of 4900 Dolphin Road early Saturday morning after the driver who hit him did not stop to help.<\/p>\n

Watkins\u2019s sisters told NBC 5 their phones started ringing overnight before the sun came up, and they\u2019ve been trying to come to terms with the news ever since.<\/p>\n

Joyce Watkins said, as the oldest, she helped raise her siblings. When the phone rang with tragic news about her brother James, she couldn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said, \u2018Somebody hit our brother.’ I said, ‘Oh Lord.’ She said, “Our brother is dead.’ I said, ‘Jesus Christ,\u2019\u201d said Watkins.<\/p>\n

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James Watkins<\/p>\n

Dallas police responded to the call at about 4:10 a.m. Saturday. When they arrived, they found Watkins on the ground.<\/p>\n

His sisters said he was so badly injured, they weren\u2019t allowed to see his body. But a witness near the collision scene at the time told one of the sisters what had just unfolded.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll she heard was ‘boom!’ She said when she looked up and jumped out of her car. She said she took off running over there. She went to see him, and she said, \u2018I don\u2019t even want to tell you,\u2019\u201d said James\u2019 sister, Brenda Calvin.<\/p>\n

Police are looking for the driver of a small white car. They did not release the make or model but said the car was missing a bumper, which was left at the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very hard that they hit him like that and hurt him, and took him away,\u201d said sister, Shelia Calvin. \u201cBut it hurts so bad because that\u2019s the only brother we had left.\u201d<\/p>\n

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James Watkins’s three sisters want justice for their brother, who was killed in a hit-and-run crash.<\/p>\n

They said James Watkins was born and raised in South Dallas, and it\u2019s a loss felt by others in the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so, so many people talking about James. That know him,\u201d said Calvin.<\/p>\n

They said they defended their brother growing up and will continue to fight for justice following his death.<\/p>\n

They have a message for the person responsible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill you come forward?\u201d Joyce Watkins pleaded. \u201cY’all took something away from us that was very valuable to us. The only brother that we had. So please come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact Dallas police at 214-671-0787 or 214-744-4444.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three sisters are seeking justice for their brother who was killed in a hit-and-run over the weekend. Dallas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-87733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114906343039107821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87733","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=87733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}