{"id":156444,"date":"2026-02-09T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156444\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:02:08","slug":"dallas-police-arrest-suspect-in-january-killing-of-dallas-tattoo-shop-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156444\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Police Arrest Suspect In January Killing Of Dallas Tattoo Shop Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man Dallas police publicly sought in January in connection with the killing of Legendary Ink owner Just Smith-Gibbs has been arrested and charged with capital murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kenneth Wayne Brown Jr., 24, was booked into the Dallas County Jail on February 6 and charged with capital murder, according to arrest information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/man-charged-capital-murder-shooting-death-dallas-tattoo-shop-owner.amp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reported<\/a> by FOX 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Dallas Express previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/fatal-exchange-dallas-tattoo-worker-171122053.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on the January homicide, which occurred outside Legendary Ink in Oak Cliff. At the time, police said the suspect had fled and no arrest had been made.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Later in January, the Dallas Police Department issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DallasPD\/posts\/dallas-police-are-asking-for-the-publics-help-to-locate-kenneth-brown-jr-he-is-w\/1341742797995496\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:public notice;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">public notice<\/a> asking for help locating Brown, identifying him as a suspect in a murder investigation tied to the 2900 block of East 11th Street and referencing case number 002884-2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court records indicate Brown now faces a capital murder charge tied to the case. He is also charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon, with bond set at $10,000 for that offense. Brown remains in custody at the Dallas County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man Dallas police publicly sought in January in connection with the killing of Legendary Ink owner Just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6885,102,20908,104,103,401,64408,64407],"class_list":["post-156444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-capital-murder","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county-jail","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-kenneth-wayne-brown-jr","tag-wayne-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}