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Four-year-old girl killed in 1-10 accident
Vehicle forced over guardrail on San Jacinto bridge
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to honor fallen military members.
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welcome guests, which will be
followed a presentation of Ronald
Reagan’s Memorial Day speech.
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Antoinette Dorsey-James holds a picture of her sister Pamela Turner during a news conference outside the Harris
County Civil Court in Houston. Turner was killed during an altercation with a Baytown Police Department officer on
May 13 at The Brixton Apartments complex she lived at in Baytown.
will give a presentation of the col-
ors.
After the National Anthem and
Pledge of Allegiance, led by Rich-
ard Romolo of VFW Post 912, the
invocation will be given by Don-
Houston man in
shooting linked
to motel hold ups
BY CHRISTOPHER JAMES
christopherjames@baytownsun.com
or soldiers at Veterans Memorial
Plaza at Bicentennial Park, 1001
Market St.
The ceremony will be at 11 a.m.
Monday and is open to the public.
The Master of Ceremonies will
be Jerry Johnson, of Veteran of
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BIBLE VERSE
When you pass through
the waters, I will be with
you; and through the
rivers, they shall not
overwhelm you; when
you walkthrough fire
you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not
consume you.
~ Isaiah 43:2
Lawyer: Baytown officer shot
woman in stomach, chest & face
serious injury.
Teare added it was too early to
talk about charges being filed on
anyone.
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and community picnic at 10 a.m.
Monday.
Retired Anny Master Sgt. Joe
Briscoe will be this year’s guest
speaker while American Legion
Post 658 will announce all of the
names of the deceased veterans
that were buried this year.
The Crosby JROTC will also
be in attendance and participating
in various ways, along with Boy
Scout Troop 107 and Cub Scout
Pack 264 Den l from Baytown.
Pastor Jerry Hovator will also
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CAPETILLO War I, WWII, Korea,
Vietnam, Iraq and
gating a series
of robberies, three in total
that involved a man robbing
people at gunpoint outside
of the hotel, demanding car
keys and wallets.
As recently as Tuesday,
a man was shot in the leg
after being robbed of his
wallet in the 1000 block of
Sunset Drive. The suspect
then fled in a small black
passenger car.
Baytown police spokes-
man Steve Dorris said
when officers responded
to the robbery on Sunset
Drive they quickly realized
this case was similar to
the previous robberies and
could be related.
As the investigation un-
folded detectives, along
with Hot Spot officers, be-
gan searching the area of
the motels on 1-10 and were
able to locate the suspect’s
vehicle leaving one of the
motels Tuesday night and
subsequently conducted a
traffic stop.
“Upon stopping the ve-
hicle officers identified the
passenger as 25-year-old
Devonte Goff of Houston,
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placing of wreaths,
honoring over 100
fallen veterans from
the Baytown area
that served in World
Attorney Ben Crump, represent-
ing the family of a Baytown woman
shot during an attempted arrest May
13, shared graphic details from an
independent autopsy during a press
conference Wednesday.
However, Crump declined to
provide the name or credentials of
the pathologist whose findings he
presented, saying that he “does not
wish to be publicly associated with
this highly publicized case.”
Turner’s body had “three pen-
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will then say a few Cemetery, 11011 Crosby-Lynch-
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$1M scratch off
sold in Baytown
A Houston resident is a
little richer after visiting
a Baytown travel center
and purchasing a top
prizewinning ticket
worth $1 million in the
Texas Lottery scratch
ticket game, 200X.
The ticket was
purchased at 1-10 Travel
Plaza, 16151 Interstate
10, Bay town.
The winner elected to
remain anonymous.
This was the third of
four top prizes worth $1
million to be claimed
in this game. 200X
offers more than $134.8
million in total prizes.
curred at the
Motel 6 on In-
terstate 10.
Over the
past month,
Baytown de-
tectives have
been investi-
etrating distant type gunshot did not strike any ribs.
The ceremony will close with
“Amazing Grace,” benediction
and Taps played by Baytown Vet-
erans Honor Guard.
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Harris County Sheriff’s Office The girl was killed just after 6
Sgt. Eduardo Rivera described a.m. on the highway’s westbound
A four-year-old girl was killed the heavy emotions he and other lanes at the bridge over the San the four-year-old died,
after an 18-wheeler struck her deputies experienced recovering Jacinto River Wednesday morn- “The 18-wheeler hit the car,
vehicle on Interstate 10 near the little girl’s body. ing, HCSO deputies said. forced it up over the guardrail
Crosby-Lynchburg, sending it “It is never easy,” Rivera said. The girl was in a Mitsubishi and it fell in between the two
over the guardrail to the embank- “I’ve been on the job for 28 Eclipse driven by her father, 35, sides of I-10 on the shores of the
and with her mother, 24, also in- channel,” Teare said.
side the vehicle. Teare said the girl was pro-
Sean Teare, Harris Coun- nounced dead at the scene and
ty District Attorney vehicular the father flown by helicopter to
crimes division chief, told how the hospital. The mother escaped
wounds,” he said. There were no Another entered her abdomen
exit wounds. and struck the liver. It also penetrat-
Crump said the private autopsy ed a vertebra.
was performed after the official au- The most upsetting injury for
topsy by the Harris County Institute the family, he said, was a gunshot
of Forensic Sciences. He said any wound to the face.
bullets or bullet fragments had pre- While not the fatal shot, Crump
sumably been removed in the orig- said, it required her face to be re-
inal autopsy. constructed for the funeral.
Either one of two wounds could That gunshot, he said, entered
have been the fatal wound accord- her face below her left eye, about
ing to the independent autopsy, he at cheekbone level, shattering the
said. bone. The bullet was embedded in
One entered her chest on the left her jaw.
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 101, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 2019, newspaper, May 23, 2019; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1467718/m1/1/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.