Fort Worth man killed American Airlines regional carrier flight attendant: cops
.jpg "Fort Worth police sought an arrest warrant and booked Dennis Day on suspicion of murder in the killing of Rana Soluri.")
The creeks of North Texas have flooded a number of times since spring, and Rana Soluri’s body may have been washed downstream with the rain.
Without her remains, police on Tuesday arrested in Soluri’s killing a 66-year-old man who they said admitted squeezing her throat inside a Fort Worth house until she was dead.
The man, Dennis Day, and Soluri were longtime friends, and they lived together for about a year. Though she had not been in contact with others since mid-March, Soluri was not reported missing until a colleague notified police on June 11.
Ultimately Day told Tom O’Brien, a Fort Worth Police Department Homicide Unit detective, that on a night in late March he snapped and began to strangle Soluri with his hands, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Soluri, 47, worked as a flight attendant for American Airlines regional carrier Envoy Air.
Day said that he strangled Soluri on the kitchen floor until she died, according to the affidavit.
Day said he dragged her body out to the back yard. When Day realized that he was being recorded by his video surveillance camera, he disconnected the equipment, the affidavit states.
That recording appears to have revealed to police that Day was the assailant.
In their first contact with detectives, Day and another person with whom he also lived denied knowledge of Soluri’s disappearance. Both consented to a search of their home, and police reviewed its video surveillance footage. A clip from March 21 shows Day dragging what appears to be a body from the home into the back yard, according to the affidavit.
Day said that he loaded Soluri, head first, into a black trash bin and took her body from the house in the 1600 block of Grantland Circle to near Bowie, about 65 miles from Fort Worth, according to the affidavit. Day said that he dumped her over a bridge.
Police on Tuesday sought an arrest warrant and booked Day on suspicion of murder.
Day directed detectives to bridges and areas near Bowie, but Soluri’s body was not found.
Detectives verified Soluri has not traveled on an airplane, for work or leisure, since her last work trip from Phoenix to DFW Airport on Oct. 24, 2024. The airline verified it had been unable to contact Soluri and had not heard from her. Soluri had been employed by the subsidiary of American Airlines for about eight years. A family member wrote in a social media post that Soluri had been on medical leave from her job when she went missing.
Soluri was video-recording Day and threatened to call police when he snapped, Day told Detective O’Brien, according to the affidavit.
Envoy Air officials said in a statement that colleagues knew Soluri as “Rain.”
“Rain joined Envoy in March 2017 and was a valued member of the Envoy Flight Service team,” according to the statement. “We’re continuing to cooperate with law enforcement and work with Rain’s family to provide support during this difficult time.”
Soluri’s family is planning her funeral services and details of the arrangements will be announced later, the airline said in a message to her coworkers.
This story was originally published June 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM.
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to clarify that Rana Soluri was employed as a flight attendant by American Airlines regional carrier Envoy Air.
