By Moses Leos III

Seven months after a double homicide along Sledge Street, the Kyle Police Department (KPD)continues to push ahead with its investigation into the crime. 

According to Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett, the department is making steady progress on the case. 

“We work on that (case) almost daily,” Barnett said. “Weekly we are making progress or some step forward.” 

According to Barnett, the department is awaiting forensic test results stemming from items that were procured during the initial investigation. 

But Barnett said the laboratory is typically a “year behind” when it comes to testing. 

“We asked them to consider this case with urgency because we have someone who is a murderer that is on the loose,” Barnett said. 

In June 2015, KPD was dispatched to a home along Sledge Street on a call from an out-of-town relative for a welfare call. They called because they had not heard from the occupants of the home for several days. 

Authorities found the bodies of Tina Combs, 44, of Arlington and Jimmy Wright, 45, of Kyle, inside of the home. 

According to autopsy reports conducted on Wright and Combs, the manner of death for both was homicide. The cause of death in Combs’ death was an incised wound and gunshot wound, while the cause of death in Wright’s death was a gunshot wound.