Family of NBC 5 photojournalist still seeks justice 30 years later

For 30 years, the final moments of Bruce Reeves’s life have haunted his younger sister, Bette.

“I think the family always wonders what happened,” said Bette Reeves. “We kind of just felt like it wasn’t followed up on.”

It was Aug. 19, 1995.

“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.

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