NEWS
Fort Worth boy dies following ATV crash at RWP; arrests top 20 on varied complaints
A 10-year-old Fort Worth boy died Saturday after being involved in a serious all-terrain vehicle accident at a campsite on the Rednecks with Paychecks grounds.
Montague County Sheriff Paul Cunningham said the crash occurred at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the height of the four-day spring break mudder’s festival. Located on FM 3206 outside Saint Jo, an estimated 10,000 people attended this year’s festival.
Nicholas Octavian Torres, a fifth grader at Westcliff Elementary in Fort Worth, was camping with his father and other friends at Rednecks.
Cunningham explained Torres was riding on the ATV with another boy, when they came out onto the dirt road from the nearby camping area running into the side of a moving pickup truck.
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With so many people in one location it is a security maze for law enforcement, which is recruited from across the region to work the festival, along with local law enforcement.
Chief Deputy Mitchell said they have anywhere from 23 to 25 officers on site each day, with the highest amount for the last night of the festival on Saturday. He added each year the security process is improved upon to make it as safe an event as possible. This year there were a total of 20 arrests including two aggravated assaults on a peace office, plus a stabbing where the parties declined to prosecute. Read the full story in the mid-week News. Pictured, a Rednecks with Paychecks mud pit filled with mudders. (Photo by Shannon Gillette)
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.
A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.
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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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