Associated Press
FRISCO, Texas -- A man who died during a police standoff in North Texas apparently stabbed an 18-year-old high school student to death in a type of assisted suicide, police said.
A journal belonging to Charles Anthony Owen, 21, spelled out the details of the fatal stabbing of Tamara Jobes, whose body was found Sunday along railroad tracks near Frisco, police said Wednesday.
“We have reason to believe they had a conversation about it and she agreed to it, and he carried it out,” Frisco police Sgt. Gina McFarlin said.
Physical evidence also points to assisted suicide, Frisco Police Chief Todd Renshaw said.
Owen died Tuesday night after critically wounding a Frisco detective who was trying to serve a murder warrant in connection with Jobes’ slaying. Police said he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Detective Leah Apple was transferred to Parkland Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, where she was in critical but stable condition, McFarlin said.
Investigators had not determined the nature of the relationship between Owen and Jobes.
Frisco is located about 25 miles north of Dallas.