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

Dead man discovered on the side of the road with multiple gunshot wounds

29 Feb 2008

At 7:40 AM a man was found on the side of the road at a dead in near the 1900 block of Staples St. He was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene.

The man's identity has not been confirmed, but he is thought to be between 19 and 25 years old.

Fatal Shooting Investigation at 1900 Staples

18 year old male shot and left for dead as he crossed the street in Northwest Houston

1 Mar 2008

An 18 year old was shot multiple times and left for dead at the 5500 block of West 34th Street at about 8:55 PM. Apparently, there was an argument over money owed and as the victim was crossing the street, the suspect shot the victim. The victim died at the scene.

Argument leaves man dead in northwest Houston, HPD says

James Potts, 20, stabbed by Anthony Case, 20

29 Feb 2008

Houston had a string of days where the streets were quiet of homicides. Unfortunately, that quiet was shattered after James Potts was murdered at 2:30 AM.

James Potts, 20, died from multiple stab wounds as he was assaulted by Anthony Case, 20. Harris County Sheriffs responded to an assault in progress and when they came to the scene they discovered Potts had died in his apartment as a result of the stab wounds.

They also found Potts's girlfriend at another apartment. She too had stab wounds. She identified Case as the attacker and when caught Case admitted to the murder.

Homicide News Release

***UPDATE***

The website DreaminDeamon has interviewed the mother of the victim's friend.

"Anthony Case turned 20 on February 21. Just a week later, he became a murderer. On Thursday night, February 28, Anthony had spent the night with a friend. Earlier in the evening Anthony had stolen the friend’s cell phone and truck keys, hiding them, but the friend didn’t notice. The friend, his young wife and their small child had gone to bed. Anthony, a longtime friend who stayed at the home often, wasn’t asleep. Instead, he was plotting two murders and a frame job.

Sometime later, Anthony left the apartment and went to another apartment just two buildings away, the home of mutual friend James Potts and James’ girlfriend Ashley. How Case got into the home is unclear, but once he did, Case attacked Potts, stabbing him more than 32 times. Ashley began to scream, so Case grabbed her by the hair, jerked her head back and slit her throat. Our source says that “…when she still struggled, he stabbed her twice in the back and then went to cut her throat yet again, this time she slipped in his grip, and the knife went into her mouth, and he slit her from her mouth to her ear… at which point, she played dead.”

Ashley waited for Case to leave. Still in shock and bleeding heavily, she managed to get out of the second-floor apartment and go to another unit to get help. Police arrived at 2:30 on Friday morning and Ashley was able to tell them that it was Case who had done the stabbing. Police located Case by tracing the friend’s stolen cell phone. Case was found walking down a road nearby."

Dead man's body found in garbage

23 Feb 2008

A man's body was found at a garbage facility at 5900 Westpark Dr while the garbage was being moved. Garbage throughout Houston is sent to this facility.

The death is being treated by HPD as a homicide until the medical examiner to determines the cause of death.

Corpse found at southwest Houston garbage facility

Couple found slain in apartment, Pamela McGee, 42, and Wayne Elliott Williams, 54

23 Feb 2008

Pamela McGee, 42, and Wayne Elliott Williams, 54 were found shot to death in their apartment building at 3400 Hadley St. Apt 1. Neighbors reported hearing gunshots at 6:30 AM, and when police arrived they found the front door to their apartment wide open.

Neighbors said the couple had a lot of visitors, and police believe the murder was drug related.

Police: Houston couple's slaying 'possibly' drug-related


***UPDATE***

The identities of the victims have been identified by police.

Pamela McGee, 42, and Wayne Elliott Williams, 54

Adrian Jordan, 45, shot as he worked at ConocoPhillips

22 Feb 2008

A store clerk at the ConocoPhillips on the 4000 block of Lockwood at Crane was shot by a man driving a light-colored Hyundai. Witnesses left before police could arrive. The identity of the victim is being withheld at this time.

HPD seeks witnesses to east Houston killing

***UPDATE***

23 Feb 2008

The clerk murdered while he was working at ConocoPhillips has been identified as Adrian Jordan, 45. Also, the man who killed Jordan, Jerrell Fultcher, 29, was arrested hours after the murder.

Police said that Jordan went outside the gas station at 3:30 AM and was approached by Fultcher as he was in his Hyundai. Fultcher then shot Jordan and sped away.

Suspect charged with killing gas station worker

James Curtis Levi, 74, deceased from what looks like foul play

19 Feb 2008

The body of James Curtis Levi, 74, was found at at 3005 Sparrow. The types of injuries have been withheld but the death seems like a homicide.

Murder at 3005 Sparrow

A baby without a name dies after mother discareded him in a trash bin

21 Feb 2008

The baby boy that Genny Granados, 29, gave birth to in the bathroom of Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital has died. After giving birth Granados cut the umbilical cord and placed the baby in a trash bin. Custodians later found the baby in the waste bin covered with bloody paper towels. The baby was not breathing at the time.

The newborn was taken to Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital where doctors decided to take him off of life support after he was declared brain dead.

Granados has two other children, ages 2 and 10. She told authorities that she did not want any more children. Questions of to why Granados did not give birth to her newborn normally and give up her baby in accordance with Texas' Safe Haven law, a law that allows a guardian to give up rights to a child to another person such as a doctor or firefighter, have been unanswered. Granados has been arrested for child endangerment. Additional charges have not yet been filed.

Baby Found In Hospital Trashcan Dies

Floyd Washington, 50, found killed in his apartment

20 Feb 2008

Floyd Washington,50, was found deceased inside his apartment at 10110 Forum Park Dr. #122. There was no sign of forced entry and police believe the victim knew his killer.

Man slain in SW Houston may have known his killer

Murder at 10110 Forum Park Drive #122