Suspected serial killer shot two women in Denton as they drove down road, police say
A man accused of serial killings in North Texas is a suspect in the Tuesday night shootings of two women who were driving in Denton, police said.
Jeremy Harris, 31, of Red Oak, killed his former girlfriend’s father in Celina and also separately shot dead, over the course of about three weeks in Dallas, a Southern Methodist University student, a man in a car at a stoplight and a homeless man, police alleged on Friday.
Harris was booked at the Collin County jail on suspicion of three counts of murder.
Denton police on Friday also identified Harris as the gunman who opened fire on two women on a Denton road.
A 20-year-old driver and her 20-year-old passenger told police that they were driving when a vehicle pulled up beside them and a person opened fire.
Both women suffered non-life-threatening wounds and were taken to a hospital.
Dallas police on Friday said that Harris had not been arrested in connection with the killing of the SMU student, Robert Urrea, but had been linked to his death on Oct. 31 in the city’s downtown, WFAA-TV reported. Harris was thought to be the assailant in at least one other shooting in Dallas and perhaps others outside the city, police said, according to WFAA-TV, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s media partner.
Harris did not know the victims in the serial Dallas slayings, two of which occurred within a half hour on Nov. 14, police said. Adam Gautreau was killed along Stemmons Freeway at Empire Central Drive, and Kenneth Hamilton died on South Beckley Avenue.
It was not clear what motivated the shootings.
The last of the killings for which Harris is accused occurred on Wednesday. Firefighters found the body of Blair Carter, 60, at a house in Celina where construction workers had heard gunfire and saw smoke.
Celina firefighters responded about 11:30 a.m. to a blaze at a two-story house in the 1400 block of Anvil Court.
This story was originally published November 20, 2020 at 8:54 PM.
