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Harris County Medical Examiner On May 31, 2017, John Hernandez was murdered by Terry Thompson during a fight outside a restaurant in Sheldon, Texas , part of the Greater Houston area. During the altercation, Thompson's wife, Chauna Thompson, a Harris County Sheriff 's deputy, arrived and called for assistance.
Prior to 1923, Harris County took responsibility for executions of inmates in criminal cases involving the county. [16] In 1853 the first execution in Houston took place in public at Founder's Cemetery in the Fourth Ward; initially the cemetery was the execution site, but post-1868 executions took place in the jail facilities. [17] In 1923 the ...
Fatally wounded, listed by name, age, city of residence within Texas, [3] [4] and official date of death (following recovery and identification of remains or eventual death from injuries) [5] Stephen Donald Huff, 21, 25 October 1989; Ruben Quilantan Alamillo, 35, Houston, 25 October 1989; James Edward Allen, 38, Pasadena, 2 November 1989
Following the verdict, a Harris County District Attorney's prosecutor announced they would challenge the judge's decision through the Court of Appeals. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] On August 17, 2022, the same judge who initially declined to sign the death warrant in May, signed Brown's execution warrant, with the execution date set for March 9, 2023.
Harold Dean Clouse Jr. and Tina Linn Clouse, formerly known as the Harris County Does, were a pair of formerly unidentified murder victims found outside of Houston, Texas in January, 1981. [1] After moving in the summer of 1980 with their infant daughter, Holly Marie, from Volusia County, Florida to Lewisville, Texas , [ 2 ] the Clouses stopped ...
Paul Broussard was walking across a parking lot just after 2:00 a.m., [2] on July 4, 1991, in the heavily gay Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Texas, accompanied by his friends Cary Anderson and Richard Delaunay, when the trio encountered ten juveniles from The Woodlands: Jaime Aguirre, Javier Aguirre, Derrick Attard, Jon Buice, Chance Paul Dillon, Rafael Grable Gonzalez, Gayland Randle ...
Harris County Commissioner's Court established the Office of the Harris County Medical Examiner on January 1, 1957, and became the first county in Texas with a Medical Examiner System. Jared E. Clarke, M.D., a Houston physician, was appointed Harris County's first Chief Medical Examiner and oversaw the administration of the office.
Texas state law at the time required an autopsy by the county coroner for anyone who died in a hospital within twenty-four hours of admission. The law stated that the autopsy must be performed and a cause of death determined before any embalming or burial could take place, and provided criminal penalties for its breach. Drs.