RED OAK MAN ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE MURDER COUNTS

RED OAK – Police said the arrest of Jeremy Harris is a major break in a number of violent crimes that police were investigating involving a black Chevy Tahoe with black rims.

Harris, 31 from Red Oak, was arrested Thursday night in connection to a murder of a 60-year-old Celina man. Dallas police charged him on Friday with two additional counts of murder.

The victims include a Southern Methodist University student waiting for a ride after a Halloween party downtown, a panhandler asking for help, and a husband heading home.

Each time, the suspect pointed a gun from the window of his driver’s seat, fired, then drove off.

According to reports, Harris drove a white Ford Taurus once – the other times he fled in a black Chevy Tahoe.

On Friday, Harris was charged with murder stemming from those killings which started on Oct. 31, and ended with his arrest on Wednesday in Celina on a fourth murder charge.

Dallas police in recent weeks had asked for the public’s help to solve these crimes, releasing videos of the vehicles. They also launched a multi-agency manhunt this week. 

It ended with the U.S. Marshal’s North Texas Fugitive Task Force, which includes some Dallas officers, apprehending Harris.

Harris’ arrest marks a major break in a number of violent crimes that Dallas police had been investigating that involved a black Chevy Tahoe with black rims. Two of the victims were shot last weekend in one of the city’s deadliest this year. They were both gunned down on Saturday.

Arrest warrant affidavits filed in the three murders in Dallas illustrate how homicide detectives connected Harris to the incidents.

According to court records, police got a critical tip after Harris was arrested by Celina police for murder.

Harris was connected to the scene of the crimes through cellphone records, according to an arrest warrant.

Authorities also suspect Harris in a series of shootings in North Texas that unfolded in Frisco, Prosper and Denton.

He was being held Friday in the Collin County Jail on bonds totaling $3-million.