KDFW Police said Patti Stevens, 54, was found dead of a suspected suicide at her Dallas-area home Sunday, nearly two weeks after her husband was murdered on his morning jog. Neighbors told the station that friends discovered Stevens’ body in her garage and first responders were later observed opening doors and windows.
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“Dave was the love of my life and I’m lost without him”, she said in an interview with the newspaper on October. 19.
Earlier this month, former Texas A&M wide receiver Thomas Johnson, once a highly regard high school prospect who visited the Oregon Ducks, allegedly hacked an unsuspecting jogger, Dave Stevens, to death with a machete in Dallas. They moved to Texas in 1989 and had lived in Sunnyvale since 2009.
Patti Stevens told The Dallas Morning News last week that she had not been able to eat or sleep since learning of her husband’s death.
After her husband’s violent death, Patti asked for privacy. “Absolutely random”, Dallas police deputy chief Rob Sherwin told The Dallas Morning News.
He is being held in Dallas County jail, with bail set at $500,000.
‘It appears Mr. Johnson picked this victim at random. “People need to know that this was a wonderful person going out and doing what he loved to do”. He never played college football again.
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She said he came home at the same time every day from his job at General Electric and when he didn’t arrive that evening or answer phone calls, the physical therapist went out looking for him. Johnson was arrested shortly after the attack and confessed to the slaying, police said.
