Articles labeled: Harris county

It’s certainly hard enough to deal with your mother’s death. But when it’s a senseless murder, committed while your mother was trying to protect your little sister, has to make it that much harder.

“She loved and spoiled that baby. She would have done anything for her,” a distraught Patrick Matt, 19, said on Thursday outside the family’s home in the 12600 block of Bracrest.

Tina Davila, 39, drove up to a Cricket store at 5619 Uvalde to pay a cell phone bill about 6 p.m. Wednesday when a man attacked her. Kaylynn, her 4-month-old daughter, was still in the car.

Surveillance video shows a man in a gold-colored Ford Taurus pulling up beside Davila almost immediately after she parked her Chrysler Aspen outside the northeast Harris County strip shopping center.

The video shows the man lunging for her car keys then moving back toward the Ford sedan, with Davila following after him.

“She was yelling, ‘My baby. My baby.’ That’s why she wouldn’t give up the car,” Denholm said.

Not only did this young teen drive around in a car well before the legal age, it wasn’t even his parents’ car, but his girlfriend’s dad’s! We have a feeling the girl’s father might put an end to that little relationship.

Authorities say the teen took his girlfriend’s dad’s car without permission from their Montgomery County home late Monday night.

An officer spotted the vehicle a short time later and a 50-mile chase ensued, heading south on Interstate 45 near Hobby Airport before the car crashed into a concrete barrier.

An HPD spokesman at the scene said it is not known why the boy took the vehicle.

“The info we have — is a stolen car out of Willis, Texas. They were in the process of filing a stolen auto report,” said the spokesman.

Police say they were careful when following the suspect because of his age and lack of driving experience.

A mother left behind 8 children to flee to Nigeria to marry a man she met online. When the children were found, some of them were near death…

Six children left home alone while their 33-year-old mom went to Nigeria to marry a man she met on the Internet are expected to remain in foster care until a Jan. 16 custody hearing, authorities said Friday.

Eight children — including a 3- and 4-year-old who the family watched for a working single father — were found at a roach-infested home Wednesday night with no food, money or toilet paper. The youngest, a 1-year-old boy, was dehydrated, malnourished and lost consciousness as he was being treated by emergency workers, officials said.