I’m executive assistant chief Larry Satterwhite
over Patrol operations for HPD
with me
as assistant chief that he can to
Commander Steve Spears, over our homicide Division
and Commander Adrian Rodriguez over South Gessner division.
So
we had a homicide today, we had two homicides
today in this incident.
One of them is a two year old child.
We’re still gathering information
but I’ll tell you what we know thus far.
At approximately 146 today
in the afternoon,
we received a call for a shooting
that occurred
at Chimney, Rock
and El Camino Del Rey
Patrol officers, receipt arrived
within minutes
and located a deceased
black or African-American male
at that location.
Suspect was Geo way.
We started doing our investigation
and from
the
information that we obtained for Witnesses
and from camera surveillance on the scene,
it appears
that our complainant
we know now is 30. 38 year old male
was meeting up with another male
black or African-American male
at the location.
It appears some type of interaction,
possibly argument and
instilled there
and the suspect produced a firearm
and shot the complainant multiple times.
The complainant
had arrived at that location
and a black SUV.
Four-door
the suspect after shooting the complainant
got
into the black SUV
and took off Westbound from that location.
At that time we had we were doing a full investigation.
We
have limited information.
Homicide was on the scene,
forensic Sciences was on the scene
and we were still looking
for the suspect and looking for the vehicle that
he had gotten into and taken off.
At approximately 6:30 6:00 this evening.
We received a call
from a female
to report her husband
and her two-year-old child, missing
the information, she gave on her husband and her child.
And
the vehicle that they were in
was specific enough that we
realized very quickly
that the complainant that was murdered at 5500 El
Camino, Real Ray, and Chimney Rock from the original.
Scene
was her husband.
We never knew about the child until she called a 636.
With
this specific information on the vehicle,
we had officers canvassed and the entire area
as quickly as possible
and within about 30 minutes or so.
We found the SUV behind us
right here on Elm Street in the 5900 block.
Officers
immediately
observed
a child in the backseat
non-responsive.
They broke out the glass
immediately started to try to render aid
CPR. Call for ambulance,
which did arrive
the sadly, it was too late.
The child is passed in the car
at this time. We don’t know why or how or what? The cause
of death will be.
It could be something
as
like heat exhaustion,
we just don’t know.
That will be determined later through autopsy.
Our suspect is still on
on the loose. He left the vehicle here as near as we can
tell
leaving the child, then it
leaving the car. Locked up
turned off,
and that’s probably what led to the child’s death, but again, we
will find that out.
Our suspect description.
Is a black or African-American male slim build,
wearing
a white T-shirt,
black shorts.
He was wearing a very distinctive black, Raiders
cap?
He appeared to have facial hair, long hair
around the chin area.
We are asking for a lot of things from the public right now.
First and foremost,
to pray for this family,
a mother lost her husband
and she lost her two-year-old child
today.
We are also asking the Public’s help in identifying
the suspect he is still at large
and so anybody
that knows anything about this incident,
that might be able to direct us to the we can get this suspect
in custody
and off the streets
as quickly as possible.
We are asking for your help, you can call our homicide division
at
71 3308
3600.
You can also call Crimestoppers at 713
222
tips.
And with that,
we will take
questions.
Use didn’t know that a two-year-old was in the car,
but could an alert been sent out for a missing car.
If relating to
this gunshot victim.
We were canvassing the area for the vehicle. What we had
was very vague information on the vehicle at the time,
the wife provided us. The additional information that helped us
zero in on this vehicle here on Elm Street.
We wish we had more then
Nobody wishes more than me. That we’d have more than that. We could have found this Child
In Time.
The victim know each other or this was a
random
altercation that’s still part of the investigation.
We don’t know.
It appears that there was some type of interaction between the two
but
that could have been random
having met up today
or they could have known each other.
That will come out in the investigation.
I will tell you that we do have video surveillance
in the location, where the shooting occurred
and not believe as we speak.
are pushing out images
of our suspect
again, asking for the Public’s help and we will continue to do so
as
we get more information,
That’s all I have right now. She just called to report them missing.
It’s
a gas station and it looks like a small shopping center
where
the car was locked? I don’t know about the car keys at this time. I don’t have that
information.
I can find that out for you.
The wife know about the meet up
the wife, only knew that
he was going somewhere to meet with somebody. She did not know
a lot of information.
Again, that’s part of the investigation. We’re still trying to figure that out. Figure
out what happened
is the man who died.
That’s the information we have. At this time, we still need to confirm that
but that is information. We have at this time that that’s his child.
The car was stolen by the suspect,
the suspect
murdered
the complainant
at that location
then stole the vehicle.
The
video to show how the suspect got to the
parking lot. First
of
all, we have right now is him meeting up
and having some type of interaction with our complaint.
So
where exactly he came from
dead sea. Have another vehicle
where there are other people involved. These are all things that we’re going to find out
as we continue our investigation.
We don’t know the suspect’s name,
we don’t know his name
once we identify him we’ll have more information to give you but right now
we
know it all happened in this area
and so this is the area we are focused on,
but
he could be, he could live anywhere in the city
or outside the city.
That’s why we’re needing the Public’s help here.
You’d want to
tell them,
turn yourself in.
It was called for earlier
by Commander Rodriguez because he did a press conference or
briefing earlier.
We’re still saying the same thing.
Turn yourself in. Turn yourself in now.
He was in
the back seat. I don’t have the exact low
place where the child was. That’s part of the investigation.
We can find that out.
Sorry
where the original scene occurred
it’s at the corner. It’s of the gas station strip center
right there at
Chimney Rock and El Camino Del Rey.
I heard the
know
the victim
was a security guard security posed on. He
mentioned that
he may have worked there. Is that confirmed?
Our victim was wearing a security uniform.
I don’t know.
This was here and he saw some of the officers emotional.
He just talked about about that. You know, some of you are parents walking
into this and seeing the situation.
Can you just help you were?
Well, that all
it’s the hardest thing we do.
Children, you know, children are innocent.
It’s the hardest thing we do.
So it affects them.
They tried to save this little boy
and
we will work with them.
It will help them.
But it is the hardest thing.
I’ve ever done and I’ve been there.
We found the vehicle so quickly. After having the specific information,
all
those things were were in act but we found
the vehicle so quickly,
again with this,
with the best information,
we were able to determine
it’s part of the investigation,
it appears to have been