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January 3, 2023 - The man who has been identified as Pablo Patino set fire to his wife's family home after setting the home on fire. [videopack id="3917"]https://www.houstonstringer.com/wp-content/uploads/1673/69/Mortimer-Fire-.mov[/videopack] The fire started around 3:30 a.m. on Mortimer Drive in northwest Houston.  His wife, stepdaughter, and several of their family members were inside the home at the time. Police ended up arresting Patino after a standoff that ended when Patino set his own home on fire and climbed out of a window.    

January 7, 2023 - A man was shot in the torso while driving down Navigation in east Houston around 2:30 a.m. [videopack id="3901"]https://www.houstonstringer.com/wp-content/uploads/1673/65/Navigation-Shooting_Final.mov[/videopack] According to police, the man said that a "cream-colored" Chevy truck with several individuals inside of it shot at him before making a U-Turn and fleeing the scene. The man also told police that he might have been racing the truck but he didn't know if he was or was not the intended target. He was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.

January 5, 2023 - According to a press release by the Montgomery County Sheriff's office, multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating a fatality crash that occurred during a high-speed chase in the 13400 block of Rogers Rd in Willis, TX around 8:30 p.m. Police say they responded to a report of family violence in progress on Frontier Drive in Willis, TX around 8:10 p.m. While deputies were on their way, they received information that the woman left the scene of the family violence call and was able to locate a vehicle that matched the description of the woman's vehicle. As police tried to pull her over, the woman took off and led police on a brief pursuit before crashing into a tree on Rogers Road in Willis, Texas. Police tried to help the woman after she crashe...

A man is facing multiple charges, including intoxication manslaughter after a three year old who was on life support overnight passed away at the hospital. Rosendo Gaeta, 35, was found after Constables with Harris County Constable Precinct 4 canvassed the area and found him. According to officers, Gaeta was showing multiple signs of intoxication when officers arrested him. According to Constable Mark Herman, the child passed away at a local hospital at 12:41 p.m. on January 5, 2023. Gaeta remains in the Harris County jail and his bond has not yet been set.

A local car dealership is being sued after it allowed one of its employees to borrow a truck and drive it home. That employee ended up hitting and killing a pedestrian, just blocks away from the car dealership. According to a media statement from the Houston Police Department at the time, the accident occurred on December 30, 2020, in the 9900 block of South Main Street around 6:25 p.m. Silvestre Acevedo, who was 63 years old at the time stuck a pedestrian, later identified as James LeDoux while driving a Ford F-150 pickup. LeDoux was transported to a local hospital and was pronounced deceased. Acevedo, did remain at the scene and it was determined that he was intoxicated at the time. He was charged with driving while intoxicated. Acevedo had been charged with another DWI before thi...

December 29, 2022 - The Atascocita Fire Department responded to a report of a fire located on Kings Timber Trail in the Rivergrove Subdivision near Meyergrove Lane in Atascocita, TX. According to the Atascocita Fire Department, first responders were dispatched around 12:45 a.m. to a report of a structure fire. The fire was extinguished around 1:05 a.m. There were no reports of injuries.

A man has now been arrested and is in custody after shooting another man multiple times in the parking lot of a convenience store in broad daylight late last week after an argument. Around 2:10 p.m., on December 23, 2022, police responded to a report of a shooting outside King Discount Store located at 4131 Bennington in north Houston. Police then found the victim, Dontray Darnel Jefferson (34) suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Paramedics with the Houston Fire Department pronounced Jefferson deceased at the scene. According to court documents, detectives were able to observe on surveillance video that the suspect, physically assaulting Jefferson. At one point, the suspect then walked up to a vehicle that had just arrived at the store and retrieved a handgun. The suspect the...

A mother is suing an apartment complex and gas station after her son was shot by a customer and left to die behind a southeast Houston gas station near a dumpster. https://youtu.be/y0fxs05Burc According to the lawsuit, on November 12, 2022, the victim, Satisfield Demarcus Landry was involved in an argument with another customer. Both employees and managers heard the argument and “did nothing to intervene” despite the other customer (who would end up being Landry’s killer) threatening Landry’s life several times. After Landry finished his purchase, he left the store. The customer who was threatening Landry was waiting behind the gas station, at the Wesley Square Apartments and shot Landry before fleeing. In the initial media briefing (found in the video above) officers with the H...

A Houston area church is being sued by a mother who alleges officials at the church tried to cover up the sexual abuse of minors by a Youth Pastor. The church, Champion Forest Baptist church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention, which the lawsuit alleges has a history of covering up abuse in its ranks. One of their ex-youth pastors even pleaded guilty to sexual abuse and sexual assault allegations back in 2018. The lawsuit, which was filed in Harris County District Court last week alleges that the mother and her child were getting ready to attend a program that they attended every Monday. The child on this particular day suddenly expressed fear about going to church. When the mother asked why he was afraid of going, the child told her that the day before, one of the teacher...

December 23, 2022 - A witness sent this photo in of a Ford Expedition that had crashed out and ended up a guardrail in north Houston on the Eastex Freeway at the E Mount Houston exit Friday evening. While no official cause has been given regarding the accident, the witness who sent this photo in stated that there were "beer cans everywhere". If you come across any accidents or have any news stories you would like to see on Houston Stringer, you can send them to us at tips@houstonstringer.com