Steven Benton Aubrey.
After years of public suspicion, a longtime adversary of a prominent Texas attorney has been arrested in the man’s horrific burning death. Steven Benton Aubrey, 61, is being held at the Broward County Jail over in Florida, online records show.
Cops in Dallas, Texas believe Aubrey murdered lawyer Ira Tobolowsky, 68. Officers announced the capital murder arrest on Wednesday.
Dallas Police make arrest in 2016 homicide
On 4/27/2022, DPD Homicide arrested Steven Aubrey, 61, and charged him with Capital Murder in the death of Ira Tobolowsky. The information and evidence gathered during the years-long investigation have resulted in making the arrest. pic.twitter.com/pdLXhoHiGD
— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) April 27, 2022
Someone set fire to Tobolowsky’s home on May 13, 2016. He was found in his garage. Investigators determined he died not just from burns and smoke inhalation, but blunt force trauma, too. At the time of his death, Ira lived with what D Magazine called a “debilitating spine condition.” He reportedly had hunched shoulders and struggled to raise his chest or turn his neck.
“On May 13, 2016, Tobolowsky was preparing to leave for work from his home on Kenshire Drive in Dallas,” police said in a statement Wednesday. “An investigation determined Tobolowsky entered his garage and was near his car when Aubrey assaulted him, pouring gasoline on the victim, setting him on fire, causing his death.”
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