Winnsboro Police Media Report Aug. 2-8, 2021
The Winnsboro Police Department’s weekly media report for Aug. 2-8, 2021, included the following:
Arrests
- Kyle Owen, 20 years of age, of Winnsboro, was arrested on August 4, 2021, on a Wood County Warrant.
- Justin Williamson, 25 years of age, of Tyler, was arrested on August 5, 2021, for multiple Winnsboro Municipal Warrants and for Possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 Controlled Substance.
Calls For Service
The Winnsboro Police Department responded to a total of 121 calls for service during this reporting period.
Citations
The Winnsboro Police Department issued 32 citations and 44 warnings during this reporting period.
Cumby Man Accused Of Shooting A Pregnant Woman
A 43-year-old Cumby man is being held in Hopkins County jail Tuesday morning after allegedly shooting a pregnant woman, who later died, enhancing the charge from aggravated assault to capital murder, according to sheriff’s reports.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call just before midnight requesting assistance for a person with a gunshot wound at a residence in Hopkins County, just north of Cumby. Deputies, Cumby Police, Emergency Medical Services, medical personnel from local fire departments, and HCSO Criminal Investigators responded at the scene, HCSO Chief Deputy Tanner Crump. noted in a press release Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 2021.
“Law enforcement arrived on scene and found Margret Ann Sanders had suffered a gunshot wound to her torso. Emergency Medical Services provided medical care and airlifted the patient to a hospital for further treatment,” Crump reported.
Law enforcement officers processed the scene and interviewed all involved people. Texas Rangers were called to the assist in the investigation. During the investigation, it was determined Jason Cory Sanders shot a female family member in the torso with a small caliber firearm during a domestic disturbance.
Sanders claimed he wielded a firearm in order to fire a shot and scare his wife during a verbal altercation. The woman was struck. Jason Sanders was taken into custody early Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 2021, for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon-family violence and tampering with physical evidence.
Sanders reportedly asked to use is phone to message his boss. However, he was allegedly seen by a deputy deleting a message thread from Facebook. He allegedly admitted the message thread was between him and the victim.
“During the early morning hours, Mrs. Sanders succumbed to the injuries sustained from the gunshot wound. Further, investigation revealed the victim is believed to have been pregnant. Based on the evidence obtained in this ongoing investigation, an arrest warrant was obtained for capital murder. Mr. Sanders was booked into the Hopkins County Jail without incident,” Crump stated late Tuesday morning.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Volleyball Set For Tri-Match Season Opener Today at SSHS Main Gym
Coach Bailey Dorner’s Lady Cats volleyball team are prepped and set for their regular-season opener at home today at the SSHS Main Gym.
The Lady Cats are set to host a tri-match today, between Sulphur Springs, North Lamar and Sherman, with the Lady Cats games taking place at 9 A.M. (versus North Lamar), with Coach Dorner’s team taking on Sherman later in the day at 1 P.M.
Before the Lady Cats get started this morning to get their season underway, they hosted three scrimmages on Saturday.
Coach Dorner’s squad had their first three scrimmages last Saturday, hosting a slew of teams. They first played Midlothian Heritage at 10:40 A.M., followed by a scrimmage with Lakeview Centennial, and lastly against Forney at 1:50 P.M.
All three scrimmages (the only of which for Coach Dorner’s squad this season) took place in the SSHS Main Gym on Saturday, Aug. 7.
The Lady Cats regular-season opening triple-match between North Lamar and Sherman will take place at 9 A.M. and 1 P.M., respectively.
Sulphur Springs’ second match of the day will be broadcasted on KSST 1230 A.M. at 1 P.M., and if possible, will be broadcasted live to KSST’s Youtube channel.
The volleyball season schedule can be found here.
KSST is proud to be the official Wildcat and Lady Cat Station. We broadcast Sulphur Springs ISD games year round live on radio. When allowed, we also broadcast games via our YouTube channel.
City, County Celebrate National Health Center Week, Aug. 8-14
City and county officials proclaimed Aug. 8-14 as National Health Center Week, in celebration of the “legacy of America’s Community Health Centers, and their vital role in shaping the past, present, and future of America’s health care system.”
Sulphur Springs Mayor John Sellers during the regular City Council meeting Tuesday, Aug. 3, and Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom during the regular Commissioners Court meeting Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, each read a proclamation designating the week in the city and county. Each encouraged “all Americans to take part in this week by visiting their local Health Center and celebrating the important partnership between America’s Community Health Centers and the communities they serve.”
Community health centers have for more than 50 years “have provided high-quality, affordable, comprehensive primary and preventive health care in our nation’s underserved communities, delivering value to, and having having a significant impact on America’s health care system,” the officials read from the proclamation.
Community health centers provide health care for 30 million Americans in more than 14,000 communities across the nation, in rural and urban communities. That’s one in every 12 people in the US who receives health care from a community health center, making them the country’s largest primary care network, the proclamations read.
They “often provide the only accessible and dependable source of primary care in their communities,” and healthcare provides at community health centers “develop new approaches to integrating a wide range of services beyond primary care, including oral health, behavioral health, and pharmacy services, to meet the needs and challenges of their communities.” They are governed by patient-majority boards, which engages patients in their own health care decisions.
“Community Health Centers are locally owned and operated small businesses that serve as critical economic engines, helping to power local economies by generating $63.4 billion in economic activity in some of the country’s most economically-deprived communities,” Sellers read from the proclamation.
CHCs reduce overall costs of care by helping manage patients’ chronic conditions, which keeps them out of costlier health care settings like hospital emergency rooms; and “are on the front lines of emerging health care crises, providing access to care for our nation’s veterans, addressing the opioid epidemic, and responding to public health threats, including COVID-19,” Newsom read from the document.
Man Accused of Threatening Woman, Shooting At A Residence
A 35-year-old Sulphur Springs man was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly threatening a woman, then shooting at a residence Sunday night, according to arrest reports.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Communications Operators dispatched Deputy Nick Marney and Sgt. Tanner Steward at 8:50 p.m. Aug. 8 to an FM 2560 address, where an intoxicated male with a weapon was reportedly making threats to a woman.
Upon arrival, the deputies found Jose Emiliano Hernandez-Lopez behind the residence. They reported smelling an alcohol odor emitting from him while talking to him. He also admitted to discharging a .40-caliber handgun behind the residence.
They were told the male had discharged his firearm from inside of a vehicle toward the residence, drove on the driveway beside the house a second time and discharged his weapon toward the house a second time, then approximately four more times from inside the vehicle in the direction of the residence. They did report finding damage to the front passenger side door of the man’s vehicle that appeared to have been caused by discharging a firearm from the inside of the vehicle, with a projectile striking the door. Deputies saw two spent .40-caliber cartridges in the rear seat of the vehicle. Based on that information, Hernandez Lopez was taken into custody at 9:27 p.m. on the felony assault charge.
Hernandez-Lopez remained in Hopkins County jail Monday night, Aug. 9, on the aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge for allegedly shooting at a residence and threatening a woman. Bond was set at $50,000 on the second-degree felony charge.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Sports Teams Ramping Up in Week Two of August in Preparation for Fall Seasons
Even though it is only week two here in August, teams are ramping up activity as they gear up for their fall seasons and fall semesters.
Volleyball hosted three scrimmages on Saturday, amongst others, and are prepared to for their season-opener tomorrow Tuesday, Aug. 10.
The Lady Cats volleyball program played their first scrimmages of the fall season on Saturday when they played three of them; first with Midlothian Heritage at 10:40 A.M., followed by a scrimmage with Lakeview Centennial, and lastly against Forney at 1:50 P.M. All three scrimmages took place in the SSHS Main Gym.
Coach Bailey Dorner’s Lady Cats will be hosting a tri-match tomorrow between Sulphur Springs, North Lamar and Sherman at 9 A.M. and 1 P.M., respectively.
Next weekend, Coach Bailey Dorner’s Lady Cats will travel to the DFW metroplex when they participate in the Garland Tournament on Aug. 13-14.
To round out the pre-school semester games, Sulphur Springs will travel to Greenville on Tuesday, Aug. 17 to take on the Lady Lions at 5:30 P.M.
To see the volleyball schedule in its entirety, click here.
Team tennis hosted two DFW schools, Sherman and Denison, at the tennis center in the SSISD Athletic Complex last week on Monday, Aug. 2 at 9 A.M. and 2 P.M., respectively.
They went 1-1 against the two teams.
Earlier today they travelled out to Mesquite Poteet for their third match-up of their season.
It will be a busy time for the tennis team, coached by Tony Martinez, as they will compete against three more schools before the school year begins next Wednesday on Aug. 18.
Those teams are:
- at Bullard High School (in Tyler), on Wednesday, Aug. 11 at 9 A.M.
- and versus Greenville, on Thursday, Aug. 12 at 4 P.M.
To see the full tennis schedule, click here.
Football is also gearing up for their first scrimmage. Coach Greg Owens’ Wildcats enjoyed their time off after the Edge ended and are now entrenched in two-a-days.
The first scrimmage for the Wildcats football team is this Friday, Aug. 13 when they make the long trek out to Texarkana to take on Liberty Eylau at 7 P.M.
After that Coach Owens’ squad will take on Pleasant Grove at home on Aug. 20 in their last scrimmage of two before their home-opener on Friday, Aug. 27 versus Frisco Wakeland.
For the football schedule, click here.
Last but certainly not least is Wildcats cross country, who will host an intra-squad meet right here in Sulphur Springs at the SSISD Athletic Complex this Saturday, Aug. 14.
The Saturday after school starts, Aug. 21, Coach Ross Hicks and his squad will make the short trip out to Commerce when they participate in the Commerce Tiger Invitational.
Wildcats XC will also be hosting they first invitational in Sulphur Springs at the SSISD Athletic Complex on Sept. 25.
The cross country season schedule can be found here.
Senate Committees To Consider Virtual Instruction, Social Studies Bills Tuesday
Senate Ed to consider virtual instruction bill on Tuesday
The Senate Education Committee will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 10, to consider legislation that would provide state funding for virtual and off-campus electronic instruction at public schools and provide guidelines for how those programs would be allowed to operate. Watch the hearing.
SB 15 (Taylor) would allow schools to create their own virtual instruction programs for students who live within their district/charter attendance zones as long as the district or charter has earned at least a C in the state accountability rating system during the previous year or the last time a rating was assigned. Students must still have access to extracurricular activities, in-person services, and any special services required by state or federal law, such as special education. School administrators would be allowed to bring a student back to campus if the student is not meeting academic performance standards or other requirements set by the school. Schools would be able to enter into agreements with other schools to provide virtual instruction. The bill requires the commissioner to evaluate the performance of students enrolled in the program separately from the performance of other district or school students, and districts/charters would be prohibited from enrolling more than 10 percent of their total 2021-22 student enrollment in virtual programs. This law would expire on Sept. 1, 2027. Read the bill.
Senate State Affairs to hear social studies bill on Tuesday
The Senate State Affairs Committee will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 10, to consider a bill that would legislate the teaching of and curricular requirements on social studies in Texas. Many refer to this legislation as the “critical race theory (CRT) bill.” Watch the hearing.
SB 3 (Hughes) would require the commissioner of education to create a civics training program for teachers and administrators and to establish the grade levels at which a teacher provides instruction to be eligible to participate in that training program. School districts and charters would be responsible for ensuring that at least one teacher and administrator from each campus that includes an eligible course attends the training. The bill then sets forth items that the State Board of Education must include in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) related to civic knowledge. The Texas Education Agency would be responsible for ensuring that all schools teach civics education according to this law. The bill then goes on to list several things that teachers cannot be compelled to do and that schools or teachers cannot make part of social studies instruction. Read the bill.
Man Accused Of Choking A Woman, Taking Firearm
A 26-year-old Sulphur Springs man was arrested Sunday evening for allegedly assaulting and choking a woman, then leaving with a firearm, according to arrest reports.
Sulphur Springs Police were dispatched at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6, 2021, to an Industrial Drive apartment, where an active physical disturbance had been reported.
Upon arrival, SSPD Officer Nick Floyd contacted a 38-year-old Alabama woman whose face was bleeding in the parking lot on one side of the apartment complex. EMS was requested to treat the woman.
Concern was expressed for the safety of the woman’s child, who’d been left in the apartment with Andrew Dean Webber, the man accused of assaulting her. Floyd and another officer retrieved the child from the apartment and reunited him to the injured woman. While in the apartment, the officers ascertained Webber had left prior to their entry. The woman’s firearm was also reported to be missing from the apartment.
The woman was transported to the emergency room, where she received stitches to her face, an injury Webber was alleged to have caused.
The 26-year-old Sulphur Springs man was accused of assaulting her inside the residence, by using his hands to choking the 38-year-old woman to the point she could not breath. Once she was able to get free she ran into the parking lot. Someone called the police to assist her, police were told. When Webber found her in the parking lot and he then allegedly began punching the woman with a closed fist, causing the injury requiring stiches to her face, according to police reports.
Webber was located at the corner of Lee and Texas Street. He had a 9 mm in his possession, Floyd alleged in arrest reports. For choking a woman he was taken into custody at 7:29 p.m. Aug. 8, 2021, on the third degree felony charge of assault family violence-impeding breathing, as well as for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Webber remained in Hopkins County jail Monday Aug. 9, 2021, in lieu of $50,000 in bond, $30,000 on the assault charge and $20,000 on the firearm charge, according to jail reports.
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If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Sulphur Springs ISD Administrators To Present Return To In-Person Instruction, Compensation Plans
Adult Meal Price Increase, Meet The Teacher Schedule, Handbooks, Architectural Firm On SSISD Aug. 9 Agenda
The Sulphur Springs Independent School District Board of Trustees appears to have a full agenda Monday evening, with a number of routine items such as presentation of the student and employee handbooks, update on Meet the Teacher activities scheduled throughout the district, and approval of the latest policy updates as recommended by Texas Association of School Boards, Code of Conduct, meal payment and charge policy on the agenda.
Also to be presented at the 6 p.m. meeting on Aug. 9, will be a plan to return to in-person instruction and continuity of services, the annual CTE program evaluation, a shared services agreement for the Greenville ISD program for deaf services as well as a presentations of and by an architectural firm.
The agenda for the Aug. 9 meeting is as follows:
AGENDA
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
SULPHUR SPRINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2021 6:00 PM
- CALL TO ORDER: Invocation & Pledges to the flags
- FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS
- Announcement by the President whether a quorum is present, that the meeting had been duly called and that the notice of the meeting had been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551.
- B. Approval of the minutes of the regular meeting/budget work session of the Board of Trustees on Monday, July 12, 2021 beginning at 6:00 p.m. held in the Board Room of the Administration Building.
- PUBLIC FORUM:
- Public participation is limited to the designated open forum of a meeting per board policy BED(LOCAL).
- ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS/INFORMATION ITEMS
- Presentation by architectural firm.
- CTE Program Evaluation Report for 2020-2021. (Exhibit IV-B) [Jenny Arledge]
- Information re: Food Service Purchasing for the 2021-2022 school year. (Exhibit IV-C) [Veronica Arnold]
- Information re: increase to faculty and adult visitor meal prices. (Exhibit IV-D) [Veronica Arnold]
- Present list of “Meet the Teacher” activities. (Exhibit IV-E) [Kristin Monk]
- Update on ESSA (Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV) applications. (Exhibit IV-F) [Josh Williams for Jason Evans]
- Present 2021-2022 Elementary and Secondary student handbooks for review. (Exhibit IV-G) [Josh Williams]
- Present 2021-2022 SSISD Employee Handbook for review. (Exhibit IV-H [Josh Williams]
- Present SSISD Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services Plan. (Exhibit IV-I) [Josh Williams]
- Presentation by architectural firm.
- CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS:
- These items are considered to be routine by the board and will be enacted under one motion, unless a member of the board requests that an item be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.
- Consider approval of Tax Credits and Supplements for July 2021. (Exhibit V-A)
- Consider approval of Delinquent Tax Collections for July 2021. (Exhibit V-B)
- Consider approval of Financial Statements and Bills Payable for July 2021. (Exhibit V-C)
- ACTION ITEMS
- A. Discuss and consider approval of the Greenville ISD Regional Day School Program for the Deaf Shared Services Arrangement. (Exhibit VI-A) [Susan Johnston]
- B. Discuss and consider approval of SSISD Child Nutrition Meal Payments & Charge Policy for 2021-2022 school year. (Exhibit VI-B) [Veronica Arnold]
- C. Discuss and consider approval of Property/Casualty Insurance for 2021-2022 (Exhibit VI-C) [Sherry McGraw]
- D. Review, discuss and consider approval of SSISD compensation plan. (Exhibit VI-D) [Josh Williams]
- E. Discuss and consider approval of teacher appraisers and appraisal calendar for the 2021-2022 school year. (Exhibit VI-E) [Josh Williams]
- F. Discuss and consider approval of Local Policy Manual Update FO(LOCAL). (Exhibit VI-F) [Josh Williams]
- G. Discuss and consider approval of the SSISD Student Code of Conduct for the 2021-2022 school year. (Exhibit VI-G) [Josh Williams]
- H. Discuss and consider review of legal policies and approval of additions and revisions of local policies as recommended by Texas Association of School Boards Policy Services and according to the instruction sheet for TASB Localized Policy Manual Update 117. (See attached local policy list) [Josh Williams]
- EXECUTIVE SESSION:
- Executive Session will be held for the purpose of consideration of matters for which closed or executive sessions are authorized by Title 5, Chapter 551, Texas Government Code, Section (.072), (.074).
- Discuss and consider personnel to be employed, personnel to be reassigned, acknowledge and accept resignations of personnel, other personnel matters.
- Discuss purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property.
- Executive Session will be held for the purpose of consideration of matters for which closed or executive sessions are authorized by Title 5, Chapter 551, Texas Government Code, Section (.072), (.074).
- RECONVENE FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR ACTION RELATIVE TO ITEMS COVERED DURING EXECUTIVE SESSION.
- IX. ADJOURNMENT
Hopkins County Commissioners Court Meeting Agendas For Aug. 9, 2021
NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING OF HOPKINS COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS COURT
TIME: 9:00 A.M
DATE: Monday, August 9, 2021
PLACE: In The Commissioners’ Courtroom On The First Floor Of The Hopkins County Courthouse Located At 118 Church St., Sulphur Springs, TX.
- Invocation
- Pledge Of Allegiance To The Flag
- AMERICAN FLAG:
- TEXAS FLAG: “Honor The Texas Flag; I Pledge Allegiance To Thee, Texas, One State Under God, One And Indivisible.”
- The Following Items Will Be Considered By Commissioners’ Court For Discussion And/Or Action: The Court May Go Into Executive Session To Discuss Legal And/Or Personnel Matters.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
- The Court To Declare A Quorum.
- Consent Agenda.
- The Court To Approve The Previous Meeting Minutes As Corrected.
- Approval Of Utility Easements, Burial Of Telephone Cables And Construction Of Water Distribution Facilities:
- The Court To Consider Citizens Comments.
- Other County Business.
- The Court To Recognize Constable Precinct 2 John Beadle For Successfully Completing 20 Hours Of The FY21 Civil Process Seminar Held July 18, 2021 – July 21, 2021.
- The Court To Consider And Approve The Transfer Of Property Described As Corinth Public School On One Acre Of Land Located On CR 4772 In Precinct 4.
- The Court To Consider And Approve The Recommendations Of A Selection Committee For The Grading Of Requests For Qualifications (RFQs).
- The Court To Consider And Approve Budget Amendments And Line Item Transfers.
- The Court Will Consider And Act On Payment Of Bills, Revenues And Expenses, Payroll And Financial Statements.
- The Court To Consider Approving Grants.
- The Court To Consider Accepting Donations.
- The Court To Consider Contracts.
- The Court Will Consider And Act On Personnel Matters.
- The Court To Consider Disposal Of Asset Request.
- The Court To Approve Resolutions And Proclamations.
- The Court To Proclaim National Health Center Week.
- The Court To Adjourn
NOTICE OF WORK SESSION(S)
DATE: Monday, August 9, 2021
TIME: Beginning Immediately Following The Regular Hopkins County Commissioners’ Court Session
PLACE: Meeting Room Located On The Third Floor Of The Hopkins County Courthouse Located At 118 Church St., Sulphur Springs, TX.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
- The Court To Meet With Marshal Endsley To Discuss The County Fire Department Operations, Review Of Revenue & Expenditures, Proposed Improvements And Repairs.
- The Court To Meet With Sheriff Lewis Tatum To Discuss The Sheriff Operations, Review Of Revenue & Expenditures, Proposed Improvements And Repairs.
- Budget Work Session(s).
