The Brief On Saturday, October 3, Dallas Police arrested 56-year-old Gary Len Ross in connection to the 1993 murder of 55-year-old Tommie Davis on Haskell Avenue. Police re-opened the case in 2025 and connected Ross to the cold case by matching his DNA to blood samples recovered from the original crime scene. Davis' daughter tells FOX 4 Ross is her half brother through their father, and believes that side of the family may have known Ross was responsible for Davis' murder for years.



The daughter of a Dallas cold case victim said she was in  total shock  when she learned police arrested her half brother for the 1993 murder of her mother on Haskell Avenue.

Dallas cold case arrest

Gary Len Ross (Tommy Lynn Jones), 56 (Dallas County Jail)

What we know:

56-year-old Gary Len Ross was arrested on October 2 by the Dallas Police Department and charged with capital murder.

Police connected Ross to the May 18, 1993, murder of 55-year-old Tommie Davis, who was found beaten and stabbed to death at her apartment in the 1500 block of Haskell Avenue.

Ross was identified as a suspect when Dallas Police Det. Andrea Isom reopened the case in 2025. The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) matched Ross' DNA to blood found on evidence collected at the crime scene in 1993.


Dig deeper:

An arrest affidavit states Ross, who was identified under the alias Tommy Lynn Jones, told police he had been to Davis' apartment in the days prior to her murder to  drink beer and the two had sexual intercourse,  but was not involved in her death.

Ross was unable to explain why his blood was found at the crime scene, according to the affidavit.

He had been released from prison in March 1993 for a narcotics charge, and has a history of theft and attempted murder.

Site of the 1993 murder

 Total shock 

What they're saying:

Davis' daughter, Lashaune Saulsman, is the half brother of Ross, sharing the same father.

Saulsman told police her mother was not close with the Ross family prior to her death, and was careful about who she would allow in her apartment.

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