College student shares shooting experience, Senate decides against witnesses: Your Friday evening roundup

A century’s worth of Dallas’ history will soon be destroyed  [Evening roundup]( 01/31/2020 By Todd Davis Good Evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( Exposing a scar left behind on his stomach from surgery to remove a lodged bullet, Jaylon Miller, 20, relaxes in his dorm room bed at UNT-Dallas. (Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer) CRIME AND COURTS [College student wounded in Dallas house attack that killed 1-year-old discusses incident]( Metro columnist Sharon Grigsby writes: [In his first interview since a deadly Jan. 5 attack]( Jaylon Miller talked with me Wednesday at his residence hall at the University of North Texas at Dallas. As his parents and his sister Ebony, who is Rory’s mother, sat nearby, Jaylon said his little nephew "was my joy" and "never gave us any bad times, just great memories." Now the family can find peace only by reminding one another that "God took a soul with him to heaven, and all you can ask for is eternal life for a young precious life like Rory," Jaylon said. Also: [A jury found a man guilty]( of capital murder Friday in a 2017 murder-for-hire plot in the Collin County town of Princeton. And: [A man charged in connection with the fatal shooting]( of a gas station clerk in Tyler has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. ADVERTISEMENT  POLITICS [Senate votes to reject new witnesses in Trump impeachment trial]( The Senate on Friday rejected additional witness testimony in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, preventing former national security adviser John Bolton and others with first-hand knowledge of Trump’s Ukraine dealings from appearing under oath. The 51-49 vote, with only two moderate Republicans defecting, marked [one of the most consequential moments to date in a trial that could define Trump’s White House tenure](.  Also: [The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler will join forces]( to poll Texans on elections, issues.   Commentary: For three decades, Americans have elected the presidential candidates with less experience, [writes Carl P. Leubsdorf](.  BUSINESS [Dallas-based ride-hailing company Alto to expand in Dallas and try two new cities]( Alto CEO Will Coleman is used to getting lots of questions when he tells people he leads a ride-hailing company. When he founded the startup a year ago, Uber and Lyft were already household names. Now they’re publicly traded giants. But [the Dallas-based company is showing signs of growth]( even in a competitive industry. It has about 10,000 active members who pay a subscription-based fee. It’s driven nearly 100,000 rides. It serves more than 900 square miles of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.  Also: [Kohl’s new D-FW store]( plans include center developed by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.   And: [J.C. Penney’s under-$1 stock price]( has put it back at risk for NYSE delisting.  ADVERTISEMENT (Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer) PHOTO OF THE DAY Macy’s has a new concept called Market by Macy’s, and it’s landing first in the upscale suburban shopping haunt of Southlake Town Square. "Market" is in bigger type than "Macy’s" on the entrance of this 20,000-square-foot store, a hint that [it’s different from Macy’s 636 large, multilevel mall anchor department stores](. EDITORS' PICKS - Public health: A suspected coronavirus case turned up in Dallas, [the assistant city manager said](. - Get out! [Here are 14 fun things to do]( the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 6 in Dallas-Fort Worth. - Education: [Low-income UT Austin students]( may receive new scholarships thanks to the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. ADVERTISEMENT FINALLY... [A century’s worth of history will soon be destroyed between the Trinity River levees]( City columnist Robert Wilonsky writes: Soon, perhaps within weeks, wrecking crews will descend to the flat ground between the Trinity River’s levees to destroy a structure that helped build this city. They will use a crane, for sure; bulldozers, possibly, to snatch from the soft ground 1,000 feet of wood planted to carry trains over the river. [It will take no more than four or five months to erase a century’s worth of history.]( By summer, if all goes to plan, the remains of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad bridge — that vast wooden structure between the levees, made of crisscrossed timber that still smells of creosote on a hot summer’s day — will be erased from the Dallas Floodway. In its place will be a blanket of grass, an empty space. 👋 That's all for this afternoon! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! 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