Crime in The News<\/p>\n
By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n In 2002, Smith was convicted in Dallas of violating a protective order, assault and stalking. He was given four years\u2019 probation, according to the DPS.<\/p>\n In 2003, he was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of a child after incidents involving a 13-year-old girl. He served five years in a state prison, according to his most wanted listing.<\/p>\n In 2009, he was accused and later convicted of murdering the same victim he had been convicted of sexually assaulting when she was 13, according to the arrest warrant-affidavit.<\/p>\n Brenda Dominguez died on Sept. 10, 2009, while at the Century Inn motel in the 2100 block of West Northwest Highway. Dominguez had been living with Smith and was in a relationship with him, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n On the day of her death, Dominguez reached out to an older romantic partner and went with him to the motel, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n As Dominguez and the man she was with were walking up a stairwell at the motel, Smith ran up behind them, yelled \u201clook out,\u201d and began firing a handgun, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n Dominguez was shot twice, and the man she was with was shot three times. They both were taken to a hospital, where Dominguez later died. Smith\u2019s relationship with Dominguez was confirmed to police by her sister, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n During the investigation, detectives learned of Smith\u2019s 2003 sexual assault of a child conviction and that the complainant in that offense was also Dominguez.<\/p>\n Smith was convicted of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 2011 . After accepting a plea bargain Smith was sentenced to two concurrent eight-year sentences for both charges and allocated back time, according to the the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He was released from prison in September 2017.<\/p>\n Smith has ties to Dallas, Amarillo and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n In August 2021, the Oklahoma County Sheriff\u2019s Office issued a warrant for his arrest for child abuse by injury. The Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Office followed suit and issued a warrant a few months later in December.<\/p>\n Smith is 6 feet tall and weighs about 185 pounds. He also goes by the names Xavier Smith and Reginald Wright.<\/p>\n Police said a witness at the theater called 911 and followed the person after the reported shooting.<\/p>\n Residents say it\u2019s time for transparency in the deaths of Shelly Colliflower and Vincent Tijerina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement officials are still looking to re-arrest a convicted Dallas murderer who was released from prison but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,581,104,103,2461,27,18613],"class_list":["post-97121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-homicide","tag-texas","tag-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97121","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=97121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/YG4K34UOYR4DWN4OEYZL56GGSI.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>Unsolved 1983 Weatherford killings still haunt community as new questions emerge<\/a><\/p>\n