{"id":94644,"date":"2025-12-19T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/94644\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:10:10","slug":"dna-hit-leads-to-arrest-in-2017-homicide-at-arlington-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/94644\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA hit leads to arrest in 2017 homicide at Arlington apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A DNA hit has led to an arrest in a years-old murder case out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arlington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arlington\/\">Arlington<\/a>, police officials announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Devin Cameron-Mack, 29, faces a capital murder charge in connection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2017\/10\/05\/man-fatally-shot-at-arlington-apartment-complex\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2017\/10\/05\/man-fatally-shot-at-arlington-apartment-complex\/\">with the 2017 slaying<\/a> of 25-year-old Justin Dotson. Cameron-Mack was already in custody at the Tarrant County jail on an unrelated aggravated robbery charge, and online records show his bail has been set at $1 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dotson was found shot the night of Oct. 4, 2017, inside his apartment in the 2000 block of Valleywood Drive, according to police spokesman Sgt. Richard Coleman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dotson, who was pronounced dead at the scene, is believed to have been targeted during an attempted robbery \u201cassociated with suspected narcotics activity,\u201d Coleman said. <\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">During the initial investigation, investigators found a blood stain that DNA testing confirmed did not come from Dotson, Coleman said. The DNA profile was then uploaded to a national law enforcement database, but didn\u2019t generate any matches at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This November, Coleman said detectives were notified of a hit on the sample: A recently uploaded profile of Cameron-Mack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">According to Coleman, when detectives attempted to interview Cameron-Mack, he denied being involved in the murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">However, Coleman said, an additional DNA sample from Cameron-Mack also came back as a match to the sample recovered at the crime scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A DNA hit has led to an arrest in a years-old murder case out of Arlington, police officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,294,2461,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-94644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-homicide","13":"tag-tarrant-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94644","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=94644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}