In this week’s Trackdown, Dallas police hope someone can help solve the murder of a 16-year-old in East Oak Cliff last month. The teen was driving when he was shot and crashed into a home.
Officers had responded about 3:50 p.m. Sunday to the 1200 block of Diceman Avenue, near Cedar Crest and Kiest boulevards, where a car had crashed into a house.
Yuri Arcurs/Getty Images(DALLAS) Mercedes Clement was last seen in surveillance video on Oct. 11, 2020, walking across the parking lot of the Koko Apartments in Dallas, Texas, with a man. She hasn't been seen or heard from again. "In the beginning, it didn't matter if it was a street lead or if it was an anonymous tip or if it was a psychic, we followed the lead," said Clement's mother, Alicia Gazotti. She and her husband, Clement's stepfather Emiliano Gazotti, have been searching for their 26-year-old daughter for a little over a year. They haven't given up. "Mercedes, she was just a gift. She was always saving her money for the homeless people, always just had this huge heart of gold, always," said Alicia Gazotti. On the night her daughter went missing, Gazotti said that around 10:30 p.m., Clement made some worrisome phone calls to friends. "She called a couple of her friends and she told one girl in particular she was scared, she n