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Oct 3 2025
Family of NBC 5 photojournalist still seeks justice 30 years later
Three decades after NBC 5 photojournalist Bruce Reeves was killed in a hit-and-run in Hill County, his family is still searching for answers.
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“It was probably about 12:30 in the morning on a Saturday morning. I answered the phone. On the other end was Bruce’s best friend, Bryce,” she said. “And he said, ‘Bruce is gone, Bette.’”
Bryce told her that Reeves, an NBC 5 photojournalist, was riding on the back of his motorcycle along FM 1713 in Hill County.
They were about three miles outside of Whitney when Bryce said he swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle in his lane.
Newspaper articles from the time say Reeves was thrown and struck by what an incident report described as a white pickup.''
“I think a lot of us didn’t talk about it at the time, because it hit so close,” said NBC reporter Jay Gray.
''At the time of the crash, Gray was a reporter at NBC 5. He worked with Reeves just a few days before his death. The two covered a rally for then-presidential candidate Ross Perot.
Reeves came to the DFW Metroplex a few years earlier from South Dakota.
He began on the overnight shift and worked his way up to covering stories like the Oklahoma City bombing and the siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco.
“He was so committed to his work and to this job and to each story every night.''
