Ankle monitor bill spurred by Methodist Dallas hospital shooting heads to Gov. Abbott

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If signed into law, the legislation would criminalize disabling or removing ankle monitors in Texas. The proposal was spurred by a double homicide at...

. Nestor Hernandez, who is charged with capital murder in the slayings, was a parolee with an ankle monitor who had permission to be at the hospital for the birth of his child, officials have said.

He had previously cut off his monitor after serving 80% of an eight-year prison sentence for an aggravated robbery conviction, officials have said. Methodist Health System’s police chief has said the police had no warning Hernandez would be at the hospital.

State Rep. Rafael Anchía during a press conference in Dallas on March 6. Anchía joined Dallas police Chief Eddie García and City Council members to announce a legislative package filed to increase public safety in response to the deadly shooting at Methodist hospital in Dallas last fall.

 

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