Dallas police: Mom who threw kids off overpass has criminal record
A 27-year-old woman with an extensive criminal background flung her two sons from an overpass onto a busy Dallas freeway Wednesday morning, and then jumped herself, police said.
Khandi Busby faced possible charges of attempted capital murder, said Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse, police spokesman.
She was taken to Baylor Medical Center and her boys, Gary Ford, 8, and Derrick Tennison, 6, were at Children’s Medical Center at Dallas, police said.
All three were in critical but stable condition after surviving the 22-foot drop off the overpass for Jim Miller Road that spans Interstate 30 in east Dallas, also known as the R.L. Thornton Freeway, police said.
Police did not know this morning why Busby threw her children from the overpass at about 6:30 a.m., but they were able to learn what happened just before she did it, Janse said.
“The lady was with her father and two sons and he had stopped to get some gas,” Janse said. “While he was filling up, she exited the vehicle with her two sons and walked to the edge of the bridge.
“She threw her sons off of it and then she jumped.”
Witnesses said the boys struggled to keep from going over the side.
Traffic, meanwhile, was backed up about 4 miles to Gus Thomasson Road in Mesquite.
Public records show Busby was arrested in 2001, 2002 and 2005 by Dallas police, Dallas County sheriff’s deputies and Dallas Area Rapid Transit police.
Charges included assault causing bodily injury — family violence, burglary of a home; criminal trespass with a deadly weapon; aggravated robbery and assault on a public servant.
Busby has also had extensive contact with Child Protective Services, said Marissa Gonzales, a spokeswoman for the agency.
Gonzales stated in a news release that CPS was investigating Wednesday’s incident, but the boys were still hospitalized and the agency had not taken custody of them.
But in 2004, CPS investigated allegations that the boys were being neglected, specifically that they were unkempt and wore dirty clothes.
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Police: Father wrote note about killing his three children
Indianapolis – The FBI in Columbus, Georgia, issued another alert for three missing children who may be headed to Indianapolis with their father.
They now say Eddie Harrington sent a letter indicating that he intended to kill the three-year-old boy and one-year-old twin girls before he left Georgia with them.
Harrington is an Indianapolis native, and he and the childrens’ mother lived here about three years ago. Harrington may be driving a 2002 Green Chevy Impala with Indiana License plate 93L4740.
