Carjacker shoots dead Houston father and steals his vehicle with his son still INSIDE
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Carjacker shoots dead Houston dad and steals his vehicle with son still INSIDE before dumping it, leaving child to die of ‘heat exhaustion’: Suspect, 38, charged with murder
- A 38-year-old is in custody after allegedly shooting a Houston man, then stealing his car with a toddler in it and leaving the child to die
- The suspect is facing murder and tampering with evidence, according to Houston police, and his identity will be revealed when those charges are filed
- Police said they thought the victim had met the suspect when an argument broke out between them and the suspect shot the victim
- Police said they believe the suspect then fled in the car with the child inside, then locked up the toddler before exiting the car
- It remains unclear how the child died, but police said heat exhaustion was a possible cause
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The man suspected of murdering a father and letting his son die in his stolen car
A 38-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly shooting a Houston man, then stealing his car with a toddler in it and leaving the child to die.
The suspect is facing murder and tampering with evidence, according to Houston police, and his identity will be revealed when those charges are filed.
Police received a call at 1:46 p.m. Tuesday about a shooting near the corner of El Camino Del Rey Street and Chimney Rock Road in west Houston.
When they arrived at the scene, they found a 38-year-old man who had been shot dead.
At around 6:30 PM that evening, a woman called police to say her husband and 2-year-old son were missing, and investigators realized her husband was the victim of the earlier shooting.
“We never knew about the child until she called,” Houston Police Department Assistant Chief Larry Satterwhite told reporters.
The 38-year-old male suspect was seen visiting a gas station store after the murder
After a search, police found the missing car more than 10 miles from the shooting scene and found the boy trapped inside.
Officers broke open the windows and began performing CPR on the child, after which they called an ambulance.
‘Unfortunately it was too late. The child had passed in the car,” Satterwhite said. “Right now we don’t know why or how or what the cause of death will be. It could be something like heat exhaustion, we just don’t know.
‘That will be determined later by means of an autopsy. “It’s the hardest thing we do,” he said. “Children are innocent.”
Houston police responded to the scene of the shooting near the corner of El Camino Del Rey Street and Chimney Rock Road in west Houston at 1:46 p.m. Tuesday.
Emergency services respond after stolen car was found with toddler unresponsive in it
“We never knew about the child until she called,” Houston Police Department Assistant Chief Larry Satterwhite told reporters
Satterwhite said the car thief is believed to have left the car where he was found and locked it up with the child inside.
He said police believed the victim had met the suspect when an argument broke out between them.
They said the suspect may have drawn a gun and then shot the victim multiple times before taking off in the car.
Surveillance footage of the suspect shows a black man wearing black shorts, a white t-shirt and an Oakland Raiders baseball cap walking around a grocery store.
Officers respond to the shooting scene, where the victim and suspect met but got into an argument
Houston Police Department responds to the shooting scene. They said the suspect may have drawn a gun and then shot the victim multiple times before taking off in the car