Melissa Latrice Spriggs, 27 and pregnant, killed with a baseball bat

4 Mar 2008

Melissa Latrice Spriggs, 27, of 4601 Boicewood was assaulted at 5227 Calhoun at 5:15 p.m. on Sunday, March 2. After a minor traffic violation, two groups of people began to argue and fight and Spriggs was wounded with severe head trauma. She was taken to the hospital where she died at 5:30 AM, March 4.

Moses Christopher Lamb Jr., 36, was arrested at the scene for discharging a firearm during the altercation, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Medical examiners are trying to determine the exact cause of death.


Update on Aggravated Assault at 5227 Calhoun

Woman dies after incident at MacGregor Park

***UPDATE***

6 Mar 2008

The medical examiner office had listed Melissa Latrice Spriggs as a homicide. She died from injury sustained to her head by a baseball bat. It was also discovered that Spriggs was 3 months pregnant at the time of her death.

On Sunday, March 2, a cousin of Spriggs was involved in a car accident with Buick with shiny rims, and he called Spriggs and other family members because he feared for his safety. Spriggs and other family members went to the scene of the accident and were met with family members of the people in the Buick who were already at the scene since there were at a nearby park for a family gathering.

Police officers responded to the car accident report but after they left the situation between the two groups escalated. A fight started between the groups of people that number 30 people and one of Spriggs family members fired a gun into the air. It has been reported that Spriggs was trying to get her family members back into their cars so they could leave when someone sneaked behind Spriggs and hit here with full force with a bat.

The man who hit her in the head escaped in the Buick. Spriggs died from bleeding in her brain.

Pregnant woman killed with bat in Houston park fight

***UPDATE***

8 March 2008

Seventeen year old Paul Lavallais was arrested Friday for the murder of Latrice Spriggs, 27 who was 3 months pregnant at the time.

Police arrest 17-year-old in fatal beating of pregnant woman