{"id":397639,"date":"2026-08-04T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397639\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:04:09","slug":"2-new-arrests-made-in-may-triple-shooting-at-dallas-short-term-rental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397639\/","title":{"rendered":"2 new arrests made in May triple shooting at Dallas short-term rental"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police on Tuesday announced the\u00a0arrests<\/a> of two 21-year-old men in connection with a triple homicide in May<\/a> at a West Dallas short-term rental home.<\/p>\n

Atravion Smith and Dekamen Greene were both arrested by the U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force last month, according to a Tuesday statement.<\/p>\n

Smith was booked into the Dallas County jail on July 23 and faces capital murder by terroristic threat and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges, according to jail records.\u00a0His bail is set at $1.5 million.<\/p>\n

Greene was booked on July 17 and faces the same charges, jail records\u00a0show. His bail was set at $300,000 as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday,\u00a0McGriff remains in the Dallas County jail with bail set at $1.3 million, according to jail records. He faces aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and capital murder by terroristic threat charges, along with three additional charges for unrelated incidents out of Duncanville and Glenn Heights.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to reports of a shooting on May 26<\/a> shortly before 12:20 a.m. in the 3700 block of Vilbig Road, where they found three people suffering from gunshot wounds inside a house being used as a short-term rental,\u00a0according to McGriff’s\u00a0arrest warrant affidavit.<\/p>\n

Cooper and Griffin were pronounced dead at 12:38 a.m. at the scene. Dallas Fire-Rescue personnel took Scott to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she died at 12:57 a.m., according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

A fourth person was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle and was expected to recover, police said.<\/p>\n

According to the affidavit,\u00a0investigators were able to place McGriff at the location<\/a> of the shooting using call data records from his phone and three witness accounts.<\/p>\n

No further information on the investigation was immediately available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police on Tuesday announced the\u00a0arrests of two 21-year-old men in connection with a triple homicide in May at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,109184,88032,87998,89138,89218,95040],"class_list":["post-397639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news-public-safety","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tp-homicide","tag-tp-west-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397639","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=397639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}