From left: Kristian Rios, Royneco Harris and Cortney Woods. Photos courtesy of the Dallas Police Department.
Dallas Police say two of the teens accused of performing multiple armed robberies in the area were on parole for the 2011 capital murder of a man they pushed into a DART train.
Earlier this week  Royneco Harris, 18, and Cortney Woods, 17 were arrested. Both are being charged with aggravated robbery in connection with an Aug. 2 incident in the 4800 block of Bryan Street.
That same night several suspects robbed two individuals walking in the 700 block of S. Good Latimer at gunpoint. Again, two of the suspects pointed handguns at the victims and demanded their property. Police say one of the victims sprayed the suspects with mace before fleeing on foot. Harris, Woods and Kristian Rios, 17, were charged in the S. Good Latimer robbery, according to The Dallas Morning News.
They go on to say that Harris and Woods were on parole for the Nov. 22, 2011, capital murder of 19-year-old Octavius Lanier. “Lanier was on his way to receive diabetes treatment when a group of boys who were eyeing his iPod surrounded him as he got off at DART’s MLK Station in South Dallas. One boy shoved Lanier and others started beating him, eventually knocking him into the train as it took off from the station.”
There was a third robbery on Aug. 2 that is similar to the first two. According to police the suspects held a man at gunpoint as he entered his apartment in the 4800 block of Junius Street just before 2 a.m. Two of the suspects pointed handguns at the victim and demanded his property before fleeing. DPD have not said if the robbery is connected to the other two.
Anyone with information about the robberies may call Detective C. Cardenas at 214.671.3658. Anonymous tips may be made to Crime Stoppers at 214.373.8477.
