Posted on 03/02/2017 5:24:18 AM PST by HomerBohn
Two African-American teens went on a violent crime spree Monday in Houston which started with them carjacking a Jeep and crashing it into another SUV, then ended with them murdering a mother in front of her husband and two kids.
From ABC 7:
HOUSTON -- Two small children were inside a vehicle as a mother was shot and killed during a violent crime spree in southwest Houston overnight, police said.
Police are now looking for two suspects after a trail of terror involving three different crime scenes.
This tragic case all started around 9pm Monday when the driver of a green Jeep Commander was carjacked at West Bellfort and Kirkwood.
Police said two men sped off in the Jeep. A short time later, they got into a crash with a white Ford Explorer near a Wal-Mart in Stafford.
(Watch video at link)
man driving the Explorer took off after the Jeep, which tried to flee the scene of the accident. Sitting next to that man was his wife, who was in her 30s.
Behind them sat two small children, an infant less than 6 months old and a 3-year-old, according to police.
Both vehicles ended up in a parking lot near Wilcrest and the Southwest Freeway. That is where the driver of the stolen Jeep got out and opened fire on the Explorer, investigators said.
Police say the woman in the passenger seat was shot in the back. Crews tried getting her help, but she died a short time later. Houston police identified the mother as 29-year-old Jessica Lynn Mills.
..."I didn't even get to tell her goodbye or anything," Mills' husband, Edward Scott said. "I never thought in a million years I would lose her this way." The Washington Post has more:
Scott told KHOU that the bullets "barely missed" his daughters. Shaken and despondent as he remained at the crime scene after the shooting, the father told the station that his wife was "everything that I could hope for in life."
"She was a mother," he added. "She had two beautiful daughters that were 4 and 4 months old. So we need someone to help us catch them. She wont be around to see them grow old be able to have their first moments in life. So whatever the public can offer would be great to help out as much as they can."
Police described the two suspects involved in the shooting as black males, between 16 and 20 years old. Sgt. B. Thomas with the Houston Police Department's homicide division, told the Houston Chronicle that the individuals were "very young" and had forced the Jeep's owner out of the vehicle minutes before they crashed into Scott's family.
The violent crime rate in Houston jumped 8 percent in 2016.
IIRC, Houston is a Leftist area that still has a lot of New Orleans ‘refugees’ from Katrina. Prayers for the family of this woman. (Although I don’t think I would have followed the Jeep; I would have called the cops) (and yes, I realize that when seconds matter, the cops are usually minutes away)
Lesson to be learned about chasing violent criminals ... Think about what happens if you corner them with your wife and babies in the car
The very hard way
We should have picked our own cotton.
Just another good boy doin nuffin who got in with the wrong crowd.
Yup.
If he had been alone, following them might have been an option had he been carrying a firearm.
With his wife and babies in the car? A really stupid, stupid move.
Pursuing them by yourself wouldn't necessarily be a good idea, but with your family in the car? Damn....
Teen Carjackers? As opposed to.....? Another damn....just damn.
The constituency of TRUE SOROS BLUE HARRIS COUNTY-BTW...they are pulling 287g with the new #HereToStay pandering Sheriff Gonzalez
Just horrible....wonder if these savages are the spawn of the trash Rick Perry let in from New Orleans after Katrina.
Lots of luck, Houston, in getting a handle on the crime rate since you were foolish enough to hire Austin’s Chief Arcevado. Austin’s crime rate went up during his tenure.
It was a bad decision in the heat of the moment, but the real people to blame are the scumbag thugs for sure.
That is my take on it also.
Bad decision, Edward, but a horrible penalty to pay. Let that be a lesson to us all. As for the perps, they should receive the NK ack-ack treatment. Or a trip through the Uday-Qusay people shredder. Feet first and slowly.
Sitting next to that man was his wife, who was in her 30s......
identified the mother as 29-year-old Jessica Lynn Mills.
Unfortunately, the idiots in the SCOTUS have decided that scum like this are too young for the death penalty or, IIRC, even for life without parole.
Sometimes I wonder if lynching didn’t have its good points.
Road rage is a terrible and sudden thing. I’ve been tempted many times to chase after someone who cut me off and never have. Count to 10 and think of the consequences.
Re Assevedo, his version of the fifth amendment is that if you don’t voluntarily let officers take your blood after a traffic stop (if they deem it appropriate), then his officers gang up on you and forcibly hold u down and take it whether u like it or not!
I thought at first from the headline that the mom was in the hijacked car and dad/kids were chasing. Anything less than that, let it go.
Homies need to be doing the rope dance. It’ll really enhance their “street cred.”
Carjacking should be treated like horse stealing was.....quick justice and public hanging.
100% AGREE!!
Don’t take them alive!
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