SAN MARCOS — On March 4, 453rd District Court Judge Sherri Tibbe signed a motion to dismiss a capital murder charge for Larry Simon Jr., 50, due to “other; for further investigation.” Initially, a jury trial was scheduled for March 11 for the dual murders of James Wright, 45, and Tina Combs, 44, whi...

Staff Report KYLE — Kyle Police arrested 47-year-old Larry Simon of Louisiana on two capital murder charges on Tuesday, Feb. 2, for a 2015 double homicide. No bond was set. The city asked for a bond of $500,000, given the brutality of the murders and Simon’s previous failure to appear in court. In 2...

Former Kyle resident Rebecca Lujan remembers vividly the last conversation she had with her longtime friend Jimmy Wright. The talk they had in late June 2015 centered on a planned motorcycle excursion Lujan, Wright and her husband at the time were preparing for. The conversation soon shifted to an u...

Every day for the past two years, Indiana resident Rachael McPherson and her family have anxiously waited by their phones. They do so with the hope that the person on the other end of the line could give them the answers they seek. It’s been over two years since the bodies of Jimmy Wright, McPherson...

By Moses Leos III Rachael McPherson remembers Jimmy Wright as a person whom she always knew as a fun uncle, or “funcle.”  With a “live life to the fullest” mentality, Wright would do anything for anybody, no matter what their past was or what had happened, McPherson said.  “He’d give you his shirt o...

By Moses Leos III A woman found dead in a June homicide on Sledge Street in Kyle died as a result of an incised wound and a gunshot wound. That information was part of the completed autopsy on Tina Combs, which was received by Hays County Precinct No. 2 Justice of the Peace Beth Smith Tuesday. Detai...

  UPDATE   The final autopsy report into the death of Tina Combs has been completed, this according to Hays County Precinct No. 2 Justice of the Peace Beth Smith, who received the report at 2:31 this afternoon.  The cause of death is listed as an incised wound and gunshot wound. In addition, the rep...

By Kim Hilsenbeck The Kyle Police Department continues its investigation into a double homicide that took place in the 800 block of Sledge Street. According to a city of Kyle release, the victims were identified as Tina Combs, 44, of Arlington, and James Wright, 45, of Kyle.  Kyle Police Chief Jeff ...