A Dallas police officer was arrested on Thursday and charged with two counts of capital murder after a witness said that the officer had hired him to kidnap and kill two people and then dump their bodies in a river, the authorities said.
The Dallas police said that the officer, Bryan Riser, who joined the department in August 2008, had been charged in connection with the murders of Albert Douglas, 61, and Liza Saenz, 31, both in 2017.
The city’s police chief, Edgardo Garcia, declined to describe the relationship between the officer and the victims, but said the killings were connected to Officer Riser’s “off-duty conduct,” not his police work.
Nevertheless, Chief Garcia said, the Dallas Police Department will move to fire Officer Riser and will examine his conduct on the force and the arrests he made.
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