JANUARY 8, 2007
HPD INVESTIGATES SHOOTING CULLEN AT KNOXVILLE
The suspect was stopped on traffic and fought the officer as the officer was attempting to arrest him. A foot pursuit followed at which time the officer attempted to use his taser device but was unsuccessful. The suspect once again struggled with the officer managing to turn the taser on the officer. The officer was tased multiple times and had his right thumb broken forcing him to shoot the suspect.
JANUARY 8, 2007
SPRING SOLDIER FUNERAL
JANUARY 8, 2010
FIVE HOUSE FIRES IN ONE NIGHT
JANUARY 8, 2010
MONTGOMERY HOME SUFFERS EXTENSIVE FIRE DAMAGE
Homeowner Travis Thomas became too choked up to continue speaking on Friday, as he stood in font of the charred remains of his home explaining that three years earlier, the structure was remodeled to his wife’s specifications, making it their “dream home.”
At 1:09 a.m. that morning, the couple woke to the sound of smoke detectors, which they initially mistook for a burglar alarm. They got up and the house was dark, but they saw a red glow where the attic stairs pulled down, and they knew their home was burning. The family evacuated.
The ranch-style home in the 19000 block of FM 2854 suffered extensive damage. Thomas believes the central heating unit caused the fire.
Montgomery County Fire Marshal Jimmy Williams said the fire was an excellent example of the importance of working smoke detectors.
Since the fire started in the attic, without a working smoke detector, the family might have remained asleep as their home burned, and the walls and roof could have collapsed on them, Williams said.
“We easily could have had a multiple fatality fire,” he said.
JANUARY 8, 2016
WALKER COUNTY STORM DAMAGE
Just after dark Friday, intense rains hit Montgomery County and surrounding areas. Reports of torrential rains and hail came from multiple locations. The Huntsville State Park area was the hardest hit. The asphalt roadways were green, covered with leaves and pine needles stripped from the trees by pea-size to grapefruit size hail.
Shannon Davis, who lives east of the park and works at BawMaw’s Cake Shop in Conroe, bought a new car on Christmas Eve. Still, with paper tags, hailstones the size of baseballs destroyed her perfect car.
The patrol cars of two DPS Troopers in the area also sustained heavy hail damage. New Waverly Fire Departments Engine 73 at the Phelps Station was seriously damaged by the large and plentiful hail as well, and maybe a total loss. As of this writing, the department is awaiting a claims adjuster’s arrival to assess the damage.
Several New Waverly and Willis Area firefighters’ vehicles suffered extensive damage, along with many of their homes.
Around 2:45 a.m. Saturday, another wave of the storm arrived, causing extensive hail damage along Calvary Road.
JANUARY 8, 2016
MEMORIAL CITY RED WHITE AND BLUE
JANUARY 8, 2016
10000 HAMMERLY HOMICIDE
Houston police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man at 10000 Hammerly that occurred about 8:20 p.m. last Friday (Jan. 8).
The victim, William Burnell, 49, was transported to Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
HPD Homicide Division Officers N. Sharp and C. Elder reported:
The victim got into an argument with a group of males at the above address when an unknown suspect began firing a gun and struck the victim multiple times. The unknown suspect then fled the scene.
Anyone with information in this case is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-306-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
JANUARY 8, 2021
THE VEHICLE STOLEN WITH THE BABY IN IT IS RECOVERED
At about 2:45 pm Cleveland Police received a call from a frantic mother stating she had gone into the nail salon for just a moment in the 1500 block of East Houston in Cleveland. When she came out her 2019 Toyota Rav 4 dealer loaner car with her 2-year-old child in it had been stolen. She also stated her purse was in the vehicle with a pistol in it. An attempt to locate was issued immediately. One hour later a call came into the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office that what was believed to be the vehicle had been located in front of a day-care on Loop 494 and Northpark in Kingwood. Officers from multiple agencies responded. A Precinct 4 deputy arrived and was able to locate the vehicle with the baby inside. A person at the daycare stated a black male was seen walking away from the vehicle and stated a baby was inside. That person was able to get a good description and police located the male walking across the parking lot across the street. He was immediately detained. MCHD responded to the scene to check the child who was unharmed. The purse was also located in the vehicle. According to the Cleveland Police Chief, the suspect, Eric Damon Soloman, age 36, has been returned to Cleveland and faces aggravated kidnapping charges along with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. The father James Burgess thanked the Cleveland Police Department for the quick response and thanked “Rowdy’s Boys”, for locating the child and suspect. He also thanked law enforcement for all they had done for the little girl. He said, “God has done another miracle.”
JANUARY 8, 2022
PLUM GROVE FLOODING
Plum Grove Fire Department has been running calls for rescues most of the evening. This after over 6-inches of rain flooded the community. Chief Brandon Frazier with the Plum Grove Fire Department said they had multiple calls with cars in water to the roof. One big issue they had was vehicles on the narrow Plum Grove Road not yielding to responding emergency vehicles and once on the scene drivers ignored the scene spraying water and causing wakes through the rescue scenes. He said the wakes were forcing doors on flooded vehicles back closed as they were working the vehicles. FM 1010 had water over it as dis Plum Grove Road which was passable after 9 pm just to large vehicles. One resident of 25-years who flooded in Harvey said he has it and moving out. He said the main cause as many others said was the large developments that went in behind Plum Grove with thousands of homes. Tonight, those folks are sitting on the side of the road unable to get to their homes.
JANUARY 8, 2022
STORM DOES EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY, TEXAS
At about 9 pm residents of Montgomery, Texas was running for safety as intense winds and possibly a tornado came through town. When it was over businesses were damaged, people were trapped, and houses collapsed. Patrons of El Basque huddled in the bathroom when the roof partially lifted. Patrons in the Hodge Podge Lodge Restaurant were unable to get out with exits blocked from debris. Ransoms Steak House suffered extensive damage when the roof came off and was scattered for several hundred yards. Just around the corner on Abney and Buffalo Springs a home under construction collapsed as did another just down the street from it. In town, the roof of Yo Mamas BBQ was torn off. Crews are working tonight to repair it. The rear door of Brookshire Brothers Grocery was pushed in from the winds. All over town, large trees were down. Montgomery Mayor Sarah Countryman walked through the park looking at the damage caused by trees on the playground equipment. An antique car in front of Hodge Podge Lodge was damaged when a fence was blown onto it. Montgomery Police were out in force patrolling the area.
