MARCH 20, 2004
MAN RESCUES CAT FROM TREE-FIRE DEPARTMENT RESCUES MAN FROM TREE-
MARCH 20, 2007
COCK FIGHT HEARING IN JUDGE METTS COURT
MARCH 20, 2007
CONROE CROSSDRESSER ROBBER
MARCH 20, 2007
AMERICAN IDOL PARTY
MARCH 20, 2011
350 ACRE WILDFIRE IN SAN JACINTO COUUNTY
MARCH 20, 2014
SUMSTAD MURDER SENTENCING
Thursday marked the final chapter in a marriage that only one spouse survived. In the 359th District Court of Judge Kathleen Hamilton Ryan Sumstad was formally sentenced to 20 years in prison, as a plea agreement for the 2011 strangulation death of his wife, Christie Sumstad.
Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Jim Prewitt said Sumstad told police he found his wife’s lifeless body in their upstairs bedroom.
“There was broken Glasson the floor and looked like there was a struggle,” Prewitt said. “He indicated she drank too much, took pills she wasn’t supposed to take and was deeply depressed and suicidal.”
At the time, Sumstad was an IT manager for a Houston company. His IQ has been tested over 140, and he is a West Point graduate with an engineering degree. But Sumstad looked much better on paper than to those who knew the couple.
Sherri Passmore, the victim’s sister, said her sister was a strong person who deeply loved her children and touched the lives of everyone around her.
“It’s like taking the light out,” she said.
But Passmore said Ryan Sumstad could not be more different from her sister, which is part of why her death is so “devastating.”
She said the most difficult part was her giving, loving sister being gone, while her killer, who lies and takes and thinks only of himself “gets to take up space and suck air.”
“The enormity is depressing,” Passmore said.
“I never believed this was a suicide,” she said. “I knew there were marital problems. I knew he was meaner than a snake, but I knew she would never ever leave her children.”
Christie Sumstad’s youngest daughter, Alissa, remembers her mother as a “very nice person.”
“I don’t really remember much, but I remember she never really got mad at us,” she said. “She was always very forgiving and was never harsh when she punished us if we did something bad.”
Alissa said sometimes she is able to forget what happened and feel as though she is only visiting her grandparents, instead of living with them because her mother is dead and her father is in jail. Then reality sets in.
“Sometimes I feel like crying because I’ll never see her again,” she said.
Christie Sumstad left behind three children, ages 16, 11, and 9 years old. The devoted mother was also homeschooling them.
MARCH 20, 2014
FATAL CRASH FM 1488
At 11:12 pm Thursday MCHD responded with Magnolia and Needham Fire Departments to a major accident on FM 1488 between Old Conroe and Bridlewood Drive. MCHD arrived on the scene first and were unable to get to the driver of the Jaguar due to it being on its side and the victim partially under it. The fire department quickly shored up the vehicle allowing medic access to the victim. The driver and only occupant of the vehicle was pronounced dead on the scene.
The driver of a second vehicle, a Toyota Camry was not injured.
According to DPS, Jordan Drew Hebert was eastbound on FM 1488 in the right lane. As he crossed through the intersection he was sideswiped by a 2010 Jaguar traveling at an extremely high rate of speed. At that point the Jaguar went into a side skid, sliding over two-hundred yards before hitting the ditch on the westbound lanes. The Jaguar then traveled through the ditch ripping out a fence and gate. It then became airborne and landed in a rock yard owned by A&A Stone and Masonry. Just before the Jaguar came to rest on its side it struck a pallet of large rocks, crushing them.
The driver of the Jaguar has not been identified as of yet pending notification of next of kin.
MARCH 20, 2015
HARRIS COUNTY PARTY BUST
Just after 1030 pm, a Harris County Deputy discovered a party of close to 500 mostly juveniles on Maeline near Aldine Bender which is close to Aldine Thorne Stadium. Vehicles were lined up on both sides of the road not allowing traffic to pass. The deputy who was also involved in another party a few weeks back in which as she attempted an arrest of a hit and run driver, the party-goers began yelling and throwing beer bottles. The deputy called for backup which arrived a short time later. . Attempting to get the partygoers to move their vehicles they began yelling and cursing at deputies but not moving the vehicles. It was then that a call was put out for wreckers to move them. After towing eight vehicles party-goers began moving their vehicles. There were no arrests but information received by deputies was there was alcohol available to the minors.
MARCH 20, 2015
HOFFMAN HOMICIDE
Just after 730pm Friday Houston Police responded to a shooting call on Hoffman at Cavalcade in Northeast Houston. Houston Fire Department transported a male victim to LDJ who was pronounced dead on arrival.
According to detectives, two men entered the house and for an unknown reason shot and killed the victim. There was no forced entry but six family members were in the home at the time. This included four adults and two children ages 10 and an infant. The man was shot inside the rear of the home but family members could not shed any light on how or why. The only description was two males.
MARCH 20, 2015
SEMINAR TRIPLE HOMICIDE
Police are searching for the person who shot and killed three people at a north Houston apartment last night.
The shooting happened around 11:30pm at the Arbor Court Apartments on Seminar and Greens.
Police don’t have much to go on. No one saw the murder. A friend of the victims discovered the bodies.
Robert Blain, of Houston Police Department Homicide, said, “The reportee had come over to visit with some friends. When he came over, the door was unlocked when he went inside he discovered one female and two males had been shot and were dead inside the apartment.”
Police say there were no signs of forced entry at the apartment. They do not have a description of the shooter. They are asking anyone with information to come forward.
MARCH 20, 2015
WEST GRAY FIRE
MARCH 20, 2016
DIVERS RISK THEIR LIVES TO PULL CAR FROM WATER
Early Sunday morning Houston Police Department was called for a reported vehicle that was witnessed driving off the feeder of I-10 into Greens Bayou. Officers and Houston Fire arrived on scene and found tracks into the water but no other signs of a vehicle. The Houston Police Department Dive Team was alerted and arrived on the scene. After putting a diver in the water the vehicle wa located about 45 minutes later in about fifteen feet of water. Apple Towing responded with a heavy-duty wrecker to the scene. As the diver attempted to hook the wrecker cable to the vehicle he became entangled in the fishing line and had to cut himself free. Once connected the wrecker was able to pull out the Toyota Camry. The keys were in it but no victim. It was then learned the car was reported stolen thirty minutes after the call for the vehicle in the water came in. A witness then said she had seen the same vehicle pass slowly along with another vehicle following, a short time later only the one vehicle pulled away from the turn around under the freeway. According to divers, you could not see your hand in front of you. There was a constant shifting bank with rock, rebar, debris and fishing line under the surface.
NOTE: THIS LOCATION WAS UNDER 1-10 EASTBOUND JUST PAST NORMANDY IN THE TURN AROUND UNDER I-10. AS DIVERS WORKED TO RECOVER THE VEHICLE SEVERAL WRECKER DRIVERS AND NEWS PEOPLE ALONG WITH OFFICERS TRIED TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH A SMALL DOG WHICH APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN DUMPED. HE WAS FED AND WHEN GIVEN A PIECE OF PINK CLOTH HE STARTED FLIPPING AND BOUNCING AS HE PLAYED WITH IT. HE WAS VERY FRIENDLY BUT NOBODY WAS ABLE TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO PICK HIM UP. IF ANYONE NEEDS A DOG, HE IS A SWEETHEART AND HE IS STILL THERE.
MARCH 20, 2016
PUPPY NEEDS A HOME
LAST NIGHT ON A SCENE ON I-10 NEAR GREENS BAYOU WE FOUND A DOG WHICH WAS FRIENDLY AND PLAYFUL BUT WAS SCARED AND WOULD NOT GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO CATCH. IT APPEARED HE WAS DUMPED OFF. HE WAS FED LAST NIGHT AND AS WE WERE ON THE SCENE FOUND A PINK CLOTH TO BE THE BEST TOY HE EVER HAD. HERE ARE A FEW OF THE PHOTOS AND SOME VIDEO IF SOMEONE FEELS THE CAN CATCH HIM AND ADOPT HIM. WEST BANK OF GREENS BAYOU JUST EAST OF NORMANDY. IN THE U-TURN UNDER THE FREEWAY.
MARCH 20, 2016
LIBERTY COUNTY BODY
Sunday afternoon some birdwatchers were on the Birdwatching Trail near the Trinity River off County Road 2610 near the town of Romayor in deep northeast Liberty County. As they made their way to a known nesting place of several buzzards they stumbled across a small makeshift grave outlined in logs. Partially uncovered were what appeared to be skeletal remains of a small child. They called the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators from Liberty County responded to the scene and determined the bones to be that of an animal. Hugh Bishop with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office said the way the logs were set like a grave and the way the remains were visible could give anyone the impression they were human. Bishop said they would rather investigate to make sure they are not human than to go unreported and it actually being human remains.
MARCH 20, 2020
GATORADE TRUCK CRASH
Just after midnight a truck loaded with 40,000 pounds of Gatorade destined for Houston crashed in Willis. DPS Troopers say the driver ran off the roadway through the median and up an incline before rolling over. The driver suffered some minor cuts. One lane on I-45 southbound at Calvary is closed as crews work to unload the truck. They will then close all southbound lanes as they right the truck.
