An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed three people and injured another at a short-term rental house in West Dallas late last month, police said Monday.
Tyson McGriff, 18, was arrested June 5 by the U.S. Marshals’ North Texas Fugitive Task Force, according to a written statement by Dallas police. He is charged with capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said.
The shooting occurred May 26 around 12:20 a.m. in the 3700 block of Vilbig Road, where officers found four people suffering from gunshot wounds. Two died at the scene, while the third died at a hospital. The fourth person was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition, according to police.
The deceased were identified as 24-year-old Jaiden Cooper, 20-year-old Jaiclyn Scott and 19-year-old Journie Griffin. Investigators believe they were attending a party at the short-term rental home when the shooting occurred.
McGriff was being held Monday at the Dallas County jail, where his bond has been set at $1,362,000. It was not immediately clear if McGriff has an attorney.
The shooting reignited a longstanding debate over short-term rentals in Dallas, where officials have tried for years to push them from single-family neighborhoods to multifamily and commercial districts.
Council members succeeded in changing zoning rules in 2023 — until a state appeals court ruled last year that Dallas couldn’t enforce the ban, citing a violation of the operators’ property rights.
The city has since appealed the ruling to the Texas Supreme Court.
Dallas Morning News staff writers Elissa Jorgensen and Jamie Landers contributed to this report.