Scenes of Our Fyoooture…courtesy of the morning news here…HOUSTON -- Jurors in Houston have sentenced Teddrick Batiste to death for killing a 26-year-old motorist to steal the flashy wheel rims from his car.
The Houston Chronicle reports that after the sentencing for Horace Holiday's capital murder, Batiste's mother Rowena Scott could be heard yelling outside the courtroom, "I'm sorry for what my baby did! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
The Harris County jury sentenced the 23-year-old Houston man Thursday after convicting him in the 2009 killing.
Prosecutors say Batiste coveted the spinning chrome rims on Holiday's Cadillac on U.S. 59, so he drew alongside the car and opened fire. A wounded Holiday veered off the freeway, crashed his car into a gas pump at a service station and crawled in search of help. Batiste walked up and fired a fatal shot.
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HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A woman accused of nearly killing her boyfriend by dousing him with boiling water is set to go before a judge today.
Keira Jones, 17, is charged with aggravated assault of a family member. According to court documents, Jones got angry at her boyfriend for talking to another woman and threw a pot of boiling water on him. The victim suffered second degree burns over 15 percent of his body, and is in renal failure, according to doctors, because of the burns.
He's currently on life support in critical condition.
Investigators say Keira Jones removed her personal items from the home and left. She was arrested Wednesday. Bond has not been set.
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From a bottle cap message on a Magic Hat #9 beer: Condoms Prevent Minivans
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I want to pick up a bus full of unruly kids and feed them gummi bears and crack, then turn them loose in Hobby Lobby to ransack the place. They will all be wearing T shirts that say "You Could Have Prevented This."
. So a likely baybee dadee was talking to another woman, and that justified scalding him to the point of near death? WTF?