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City of Dallas leaders and community partners hold gold shovels in front of a home being built in the southeast Dallas neighborhood The Bottom, commemorating the first step toward revitalizing the historic Black neighborhood.
For decades, a historically Black neighborhood in southeast Dallas known as The Bottom has patiently waited for revitalization. Now, those efforts are coming to fruition.
City officials and housing leaders on Tuesday took the first step toward revitalizing the southeast Dallas neighborhood by breaking ground on a $110 million redevelopment plan for 400 new homes individually priced at $200,000. We are going to transform this community, said Dallas City Council member Carolyn King Arnold, who represents District 4.
24-year-old man shot to death on sidewalk in east Oak Cliff, police say
Witnesses told police that a man shot the victim, identified as Robert Lynn Taylor, multiple times.
A 24-year-old man was shot to death early Wednesday in east Oak Cliff, Dallas police say.
Officers responded to a shooting call around 3:30 a.m. in the 1200 block of Strickland Street, near Morrell Avenue and South Denley Drive. Witnesses told police that a man shot the victim, identified as Robert Lynn Taylor, multiple times.
Taylor was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The suspect, a 37-year-old man whose name will not be released until he is booked into the Dallas County Jail, was arrested at the scene and faces a murder charge, police said.