Bedford man wants to expand on Amber Alerts
It’s been more than a month since 14-year-old Kaytlynn Cargill was found dead in a north Arlington landfill , a day after she was reported missing from the Bedford apartment complex where she lived. Last week, homicidal violence was listed by the Tarrant County medical examiner as the cause of her death, but little else has been revealed. Charles Clark of Bedford, though, has been busy, collecting more than 1, 300 digital signatures on his petition to change the criteria for issuing an Amber Alert. He said that as a longtime Bedford resident with a teenage daughter, the disappearance and death of Cargill hit especially close to home. The decision to not issue an Amber Alert after Kaytlynn disappeared has been widely questioned, but police followed the guidelines. They did not definitively view her disappearance June 19 as unwilling, one of the criteria, though the department did post on Facebook about a missing person. Clark’s petition advocates for issuing alerts any time a child...