A Texas mom has been charged with shooting her 5-year-old son while trying to shoot a loose dog belonging to a neighbor. The incident happened Saturday afternoon, Houston police said, according to KTRK. The boy was hospitalized in stable condition. Angela Mia Vargas, 24, was charged with deadly conduct with a firearm. Neighbors told KTRK …
Six-year-old Houston boy Samuel Olson was dead on May 10, more than two weeks before his father reported him missing, according to court documents filed in the case on Thursday. Charging documents against 29-year-old Theresa Balboa, the girlfriend of Sam Olson’s father, say that Balboa called her roommate on that date and told him the …
Search crews looking for a missing Houston mother are using sonar in bodies of water southwest of the city, although a vehicle found underwater on Thursday was not connected with Erica Hernanadez. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the 40-year-old mother of three was last seen leaving a friend’s house at about 2:30 a.m. on April 18. …
A 3-year-old boy got his hands on a gun in a Houston apartment Friday morning and shot his baby brother to death. Houston Police Assistant Chief Wendy Baimbridge said several adults were in the apartment at the time and drove the 8-month-old infant to a hospital, but he did not survive. The baby was shot …
A Texas mother has been charged with killing her 6-year-old son last year to collection $100,000 in insurance. Ashley Marks, 25, was denied bail on Thursday after her arrest at day earlier, KTRK reported. Prosecutors say Marks gave Jason Sanchez-Marks lethal doses of over-the-counter drugs as well as methamphetamine, court records say. A toxicology report …
A 40-year-old Texas woman was in the hospital Monday with severe burns after her 60-year-old boyfriend allegedly set her on fire over the the weekend, KHOU reported. Houston police are still looking for Harold Lynn Celestine, who is charged with aggravated assault of a family member and criminal mischief following the incident on Saturday. Celestine …
The official cause of death of Maliyah Bass, a 2-year-old Texas girl found dead floating in a Houston bayou in August, is homicide, medical examiners said Friday, according to KTRK. The toddler’s mother and the mother’s boyfriend are already behind bars, charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence, particularly a human corpse, …
Houston police are looking for a suspect who stole a car with a 2-year-old girl sleeping in the back seat, KTRK reports. The car was running and likely unlocked, parked in front of the Speed Queen Laundry in the shopping center at Mi Tienda while the mother was inside. “She was sleeping in the car. …
David Brooks, one of two teenage accomplices of notorious Houston serial killer Dean Corll, has died in prison of COVID-19, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced this week. The Houston Chronicle said Brooks, 65, was hospitalized on May 12 and tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 before he died on May 28. …
A Texas woman and her boyfriend have been arrested over an incident in March when the man put hera 7-year-old son in a scalding shower because of a bad grad in school. John Terrell, 28, has been charged with abuse for putting the boy in the hot shower, which caused burns over 26 percent of …
UPDATE Houston police said both mother and son are safe, following a Monday AMBER Alert. Check back for further updates. Original Story Authorities issued an AMBER Alert for 3-year-old Clayber Victor Larosa-Reyes on Monday after a woman took the boy and reportedly told his mother she was going to kill him Houston police said Ingrid …
Authorities in Texas say a man has been arrested for brutally beating his own baby daughter to death just 10 weeks after she was born prematurely. The savage attack left Jazmine Robin with nearly 100 bone fractures, according to an autopsy that found she died as a result of a blow to the head. Investigators …
