R&I NV — A Dallas police officer was kept on the job for more than a year while authorities investigated if he ordered the killings of two people, officials said.
Officer Bryan Riser, 36, was first identified as a person of interest in 2019 after a witness came forward with information, according to the city’s former and current police chiefs.
Reneé Hall, who left the department at the end of 2020, said in a statement Friday that detectives with the Dallas Police Department recommended not placing Riser on administrative leave “because it could possibly compromise the case.”
Her remarks followed Riser’s arrest on Thursday. He has been charged with two counts of capital murder in the killings of Lisa Saenz, 31, who was found shot dead in the Trinity River in March 2017, and of Albert Douglas, 61, who was reported missing in February 2017 but whose body was never found.
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