Overview

• Authorities charged 31-year-old Oninda Romelus with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and set her bond at $14 million.
• Deputies responded to her pre-dawn 911 call at a gas station near Angleton, recovered a weapon, and say evidence indicates the shootings happened inside her car.
• A 13-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl were pronounced dead at the scene, while an 8-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl were flown to Houston hospitals and are stable.
• Probable-cause documents quote Romelus saying “kill them all” and that she “called the devil,” with investigators noting her statements did not make sense in context.
• Montgomery County officials assisted with a search at a Porter residence and the state’s child-welfare agency opened an investigation, as the multi-agency probe continues.