One year ago today, 24-year-old John Hernandez was held in a choke hold outside a newly-opened Denny's restaurant in Crosby.

Closing arguments are underway in the murder trial of Terry Thompson, a man accused in a deadly fight outside a Denny's restaurant.

Denny's employee Melissa Trammell describes seeing the violent fight outside the restaurant. "We do not ask for the death penalty for the Thompson family," said Wendy Maldonado, Hernandez's aunt.

The death of a man who was involved in an altercation with the husband of a sheriff's deputy at a Texas Denny's has been ruled a homicide. The deputy was later pulled from patrol duties.

The girlfriend of John Hernandez, a man who died after a confrontation outside a Denny's restaurant, testified in court that when he drank "he could be an a**." ...

More than two weeks after the deadly altercation outside Denny's, Chauna and Terry Thompson arrived in court for their first appearance Tuesday morning.