NEWS
DPS reports Wise Co. K-9 killed; suspect shot by officers
Law enforcement officials are investigating a shooting that took place here in Montague County this afternoon where a Wise County K-9 officer was killed and a 44-year-old man was killed by law officers.
Texas State Trooper Tony Fulton said the Bowie Police Department began pursuit of a vehicle after the male driver refused to pull over. The man was wanted on warrants.
When the suspect finally stopped in the area off Hwy. 101 on Pickett Run Road, he fled the scene on foot. and shots were fired off State Highway 101, southwest of the city. Fulton said Wise County K-9 dogs came to the scene to assist in the search and they found the man.
Wise County Sheriff David Walker told The Wise County Messenger that his officers were assisting Montague County Sheriff’s Office and Bowie Police in a pursuit when Pepper, one of the department’s two dogs, was shot by the suspect.
The pursuit ended in the area of Pickett Run Road and Aujla Road near Sunset near Hwy. 101. When the suspect fled on foot into a nearby wooded area, Pepper, a tracking dog, was used to find the suspect hiding under a pile of leaves.
Fulton said the suspect opened fire on the dog and officers, who returned fire and killed the suspect, a 44-year-old male. The deceased has not been positively identified.
The sheriff said Pepper saved the life of at least five officers. No other officers were injured. The Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting incident.
The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.
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Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”
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