Police crime scene tape blew from an overturned shopping cart in
the parking lot
of an Oshman's sporting goods store in Irving after
the shooting.
A sign on the front door of the Oshman's store in Irving where
officer Aubrey Hawkins was slain
on December 24, 2000
(Photo: Nan Coulter/DallasNews.com)
In this Dec. 26, 2000 photo, a memorial wreath stands at the back
the Oshman's sporting goods store
where Irving police officer Aubrey
Hawkins was shot and killed on Dec. 24, 2000, during a robbery.
(Photo: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Ian McVea / AP)
Pallbearers carried Officer Hawkins' casket to his the gravesite
at Oak Grove Memorial Gardens in Irving
on Dec. 28, 2000.
(Photo: Helen Jau/DallasNews.com)
Officer Hawkins' son, Andrew Wright Hawkins, clutched a folded
U.S. flag during the graveside service.
(Photo: Helen Jau/DallasNews.com)
In court, Lori Hawkins (right) identified a picture of her slain
husband held by Dallas County prosecutor
Toby Shook.
(Photo: Richard Michael Pruitt/DallasNews.com)
Toby Shook, lead prosecutor in the George Rivas murder trial,
listened to Irving police Crime Scene
Officer Steven Hazard
describes a gun found at the scene of a police shooting on Aug. 14,
2001.
(Photo: Richard Michael Pruitt/DallasNews.com)
Dallas County Medical Examiner Jeffrey Barnard testified during
Donald Newbury's Dallas murder trial in
January 2002. Each yellow
rod in the mannequin represented the angle of a bullet fired at
Hawkins.
(Photo: Andy Scott/DallasNews.com)
Irving crime scene officer Steven Hazard testified about the
damage to Aubrey Hawkins gun belt.
(Photo: Andy Scott/DallasNews.com)
Witnesses, including wife Cheri McDonnell, second from left,
leave the Walls Unit following the
execution of George Rivas, leader
of the Texas Seven prison escapees, who was sentenced to
death
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 6:22 PM at the Walls Unit in
Huntsville, Texas for the
slaying of Irving Police Officer Aubrey
Hawkins.
(Photo: Brad Loper/DallasNews.com)
Former prosecutor Toby Shook, center, talks during a press
conference outside the Walls Unit following
the execution of George
Rivas, leader of the Texas Seven prison escapees, who was sentenced
to death
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 6:22 PM at the Walls Unit
in Huntsville, Texas for the slaying of
Irving Police Officer Aubrey
Hawkins.
(Photo: Brad Loper/DallasNews.com)
The victim
Irving Police Officer Aubrey Hawkins
Officer Aubrey Hawkins was a doting father
More than a decade ago, Jayne Hawkins visited the grave of her
son Aubrey Hawkins, the Irving police
officer killed on Christmas
Eve 2000 by seven prison escapees.
(Photo: Barbara
Davidson/DallasNews.com)
George Rivas biography
