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From The Newsroom: Garland Shooting Suspect’s Mom Reacts, Hot Rodding As Art

Stella Chavez
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KERA News

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

The mother of one of the Garland shooting suspects tells a local newspaper the action taken by her son was like a “punch in the gut.”

And the Dallas Symphony’s first international music and arts festival features a car spinning doughnuts as performance art.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.