Overview
- Police say the episode began as a disturbance in Midtown on Travis Street, where a suspect entered a woman's Ford Edge with her 12-year-old inside and shoved her as she tried to intervene.
- The child exited before the SUV was taken, and investigators report the suspect struck the mother with her vehicle while fleeing; she planned to seek medical care and her son was unhurt.
- The stolen SUV headed toward downtown and collided with a Kia and a Toyota on Travis Street, leaving the Kia driver dead at the scene and the Toyota driver taken to a hospital as a precaution.
- The suspect sustained non-life-threatening injuries, was taken into custody, and has not been publicly identified; police say he did not know the SUV’s owner.
- Houston police deployed an accident reconstruction team and the investigation remains active following the multi-vehicle crash.