Daniel Erving: White 19-Year-Old Lucas Roper…
Source: Dallas County Jail / Rowlet Police Department
The battle for justice in the death of 18-year-old Daniel Erving is much from over, and now another chapter has been opened in a case that confounding as it’s callous and merciless.
According to CBS Texas, 19-year-old white boy Lucas Roper has formally been indicted by a Dallas County grand jury on a charge of tampering with bodily evidence in connection with Erving’s death at Lake Ray Hubbard. The indictment comes weeks after BOSSIP’s reporting that Roper and a 17-year-old have been arrested following allegations that they discarded Daniel’s cellphone and clothes, deleted messages, and failed to call for help after the teenager disappeared back in April.
While prosecutors continue transferring ahead on the evidence-tampering case, Daniel’s mom, Tameca Erving, has made it crystal clear that she believes the costs don’t go practically far enough. She continues to push for homicide prices, arguing that whoever was with her son needs to be held accountable for far more than allegedly attempting to cowl up what occurred afterward. Her dissatisfaction with the costs is in line with her criticism of how this case has been dealt with from the very beginnning.
“I didn’t get any information about where my son was. I canvased the neighborhood. I knocked on doors. I asked neighbors for video footage. I had to do the footwork, the research, the investigating. I had to do it,”
The grand jury’s indictment retains the prison case alive, but it does little to reply the largest query hanging over this tragedy, what actually occurred to Daniel Erving? Authorities have maintained that the investigation stays lively, even as the medical examiner ruled his death an unintended drowning. That conclusion has executed little to ease the issues of Erving’s household, who insist the circumstances surrounding Daniel’s remaining moments deserve a lot deeper scrutiny.
“These boys said that he drowned, he was a high school swimmer. He was on the swim team. He was a healthy young 18-year-old male, so that story that he drowned accidentally, it doesn’t add up. It does not add up, and we want the truth,” said Attorney Sean Daredia.
For now, the indictment is another legal step ahead, but for Daniel’s family members, justice still feels painfully incomplete.
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