Death penalty sought in Home Depot shooting, J.C. Penney loses CEO: Your Tuesday evening roundup

May 22,  2018 By Wayne Carter Good evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Dallas police officers escort Armando Luis Juarez, accused of shooting two police officers and Home Depot loss-prevention officer, into the Dallas County Jail on April 25. (Metro Video Services) home depot shooting DA wants suspect put to death for Dallas officer's slaying The Dallas County District Attorney [is seeking the death penalty]( for the man accused of killing a Dallas police officer and wounding his partner and a Home Depot loss prevention officer. Armando Luis Juarez, 30, faces one count of capital murder, one count of attempted capital murder, one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a public servant in the April 24 shooting. Juarez's criminal record doesn't show any violent offenses. But he had been arrested twice in the five months before the fatal shooting: on a felony theft charge in December and on an unlawful use of a motor vehicle charge in January. Collin County: A Ponder woman who survived her ex's deadly rampage that killed her boyfriend and three children [left the hospital Tuesday](. Domestic violence: A man is facing a murder charge [after his wife's body was found burning in Dallas County](, authorities say. Marvin Ellison is leaving as CEO of J.C. Penney to take the top at Lowe's. (File 2015/Vernon Bryant) Business J.C. Penney CEO Marvin Ellison exits for top job at Lowe's Fast-growing youth sports company Blue Star Sports [is dropping the name that tied it to a certain NFL franchise]( with a similar logo. The company will now go by Stack Sports. From its earliest days, the Frisco-based company that sells tech services to teams and athletes hitched its reputation to the Dallas Cowboys. It scored an investment by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' family. It closed its first deal in a conference room at Valley Ranch, the former Cowboys headquarters. And it moved into the football team's current headquarters, The Star in Frisco. Germany. "The Blue Star name and association with the Cowboys will forever be part of the business," president and chief executive Alex Alt said. But, he added, "we wanted a brand that we felt could be versatile across all sports, all geographies, all genders. Cowboys who? Fast-growing Blue Star Sports [hangs up the jersey on its team-inspired name.]( Meanwhile: Here's why American Airlines [plans to focus its growth at these two airports.]( Commentary: Dallas is making a lot of progress, [even if there is still a lot more work to do.]( Sundrop plants are one of plants that qualify for a tax break during the Memorial Day holiday at North Haven Gardens in Dallas. (Jae S. Lee/Staff Photographer) your landscape There's a tax-free weekend for gardeners now, and we're stocking up for summer Most of us are familiar with the tax-free weekend associated with the start of school in August. In fact, these state-funded end-of-summer discounts are nearly 20 years old. But did you know that Memorial Day weekend (May 26-28) now hosts a tax-free event of its own? And it's one that many gardeners might find quite intriguing, [with water-saving plants, soil amendments and even certain irrigation equipment included in the long list of tax-free items.]( Awesome blossoms: The beautiful flowering dogwood is worth the effort, [but this other tree is much easier to grow.]( Sting of the hill: Fire ant season is here, and [this is what really works to get rid of them.]( [Sign up for breaking news alerts]( (Bria Gladney) Photo of the Day Bria Gladney thought she was a decent artist. Until rapper Gucci Mane shared her artwork on social media. Then she knew she was great. She developed a niche as an artist creating inspirational drawings for college graduates on their caps. “I didn’t have a job yet. So I tweeted the cap and it went viral. It just turned into a business,” Gladney said. Today, the 24-year-old [has gathered thousands of followers who loyally share her work.]( Around The Site - Child endangerment: The parents of two young children were arrested [after the kids' rescue from a hot car in Burleson](. - Maximum term: A disbarred attorney convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl was [sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison](. - Sexual battery: A woman who has sued singer R. Kelly in Dallas alleged during a TV interview [he insisted she call him "Daddy" and routinely locked her in a van]( during a yearlong relationship that was not consensual. - Santa Fe:  Texas Gov. [Greg Abbott kicked off a three-day summit on gun violence Tuesday afternoon](, four days after 10 Santa Fe students and teachers were killed in the country's latest mass shooting. - House vote: The contentious banking deregulation bill passed by the House on Tuesday is the "[most important pro-growth piece of credit opportunity and banking legislation in almost a generation](," says Dallas Rep. Jeb Hensarling. - Missing person: Arlington police are asking for the public's help to find a [Michael Nguyen, 17, who has been missing since last week](. Dallas ISD trustee Miguel Solis spent a quiet moment with daughter Olivia in intensive care at Children's Medical Center on March 20. (Lous DeLuca/Staff Photographer) Finally... Tuesday is the three-month birthday of Dallas ISD trustee Miguel Solis and wife Jacqueline Nortman's first child, Olivia. Born with a critical congenital heart defect, Olivia has yet to leave the hospital -- in intensive care for nearly all her young life. But there's a ray of hope that things will change for the better. [Olivia received a new heart, successfully undergoing a heart transplant procedure]( at Children's Medical Center Dallas that went from Monday evening into the early hours of Tuesday morning. Solis — who has been sleeping at the hospital in his daughter's room for the past three months — was getting ready to go to work when Children's transplant coordinator came in to tell him and Nortman about the new heart. Advertisement [Subscribe to our Real Estate newsletter]( 👋 That's all for this evening! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. 💖 Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please [check out our other newsletters here](. 📧 Do you have feedback? 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