Police photo error implicates wrong man

Craig Silverman — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:00:33 +0000

Because of an incorrect photo provided by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, a Tuesday Express-News story about a slaying suspect was accompanied by a photograph of a San Antonio man who was not connected in any way with the slaying. The story, ‘Transient’s tale ends in arrest,’ was published on Page 1A. The photo did not appear on MySanAntonio.com.
The actual suspect, Robert Patrick White, 38, described by police as a homeless man, is pictured here. White and two others have been charged with the slaying earlier this month of Christopher Duncan, a 23-year-old South Side man.
‘The wrong photo was in the wrong data file,’ Ralph G. Serrano, manager of the central records and identification section of the Sheriff’s Office, said in an e-mail to the Express-News. ‘I apologize for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused.’
The Express-News also apologizes to the misidentified man, his family and friends and to our readers. Link

And the misidentified man is…?

Thanks, Craig!

Well, they both start with “d”

Craig Silverman — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:00:00 +0000

Kevin Brown, the 2-year-old Johnson County child who was missing for
nearly three days, had diarrhea and was treated by his family
pediatrician in Cleburne on Monday. A spokeswoman for the Johnson
County Sheriff’s Department mistakenly reported Monday that the child
was treated for a more serious illness at Cook Children’s Medical
Center in Fort Worth. The erroneous information appeared Tuesday in an
article about the child’s case. Link

What did the Sheriff’s department report him as having? Dysentery.

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Police photo error implicates wrong man

Well, they both start with “d”