A manhunt is underway in Houston, Texas, where a gunman shot and killed a 7-year-old girl during a possible road rage incident. ABC reports Jazmine Barnes was with her mother and 3 sisters in the family vehicle when she was shot around 7 a.m. Sunday morning.
LaPorsha Washington, 30, told police she was taking her four daughters, ages 6 to 16, to Joe V’s to pick up coffee on Sunday morning. They passed the Walmart off the 15400 block of Wallisville, when a man in a red pickup truck drove by and opened fire into the car.
Washington, who was shot in the arm during the incident, described the shooter as a white male in his 40s with a beard and wearing a red hoodie.
Washington said she didn’t realize Jazmine was hit until another daughter alerted her.
“She said, ‘Momma, Jazmine’s not moving. She’s not talking.’ I turned around and my 7-year-old was shot in the head.”
Washington pulled over and called 911. She was hospitalized with a gunshot wound and is expected to recover. Her 6-year-old daughter suffered a minor injury.
Jazmine was pronounced dead at the scene.
Activist Shaun King and civil rights attorney Lee Merritt offered a $35,000 cash reward to anyone with information leading to the arrest of the suspect.
The activists say a similar unprovoked incident happened at that same Walmart in 2017. According to ABC News, a man named A’Vonta Williams was shot multiple times by a white male driving a pickup truck. That shooting remains unsolved.
The activists say they believe the two shootings are related. But the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said the weapon ballistics, vehicle, and description of the suspect don’t match Sunday’s shooting incident.
Jazmine’s father, Christopher Cevilla, is pleading with the public to help catch the gunman.
“I just want anybody, whoever, out there that knows anything about the murder of my daughter, to just please step up as if it was your own,” he told reporters on Monday.
“Just put yourself in my shoes, in my family’s shoes.”
Sheriff Ed Gonzales said his department is leaving no stone unturned in their search for the child killer.
Gonzales said he believes the shooting was unprovoked, but he is not leaving out the possibility that the incident was an act of road rage.
“We’re going to leave every motive out there as a possibility,” he told reporters. “There was nothing to indicate that the family did anything wrong in any way. They were simply just driving along the service road when this happened to them.”
According to CrimeOnline, the suspect fled in a red, 4-door pickup truck with no license plate.
Police said they will use all resources to catch the suspect. A grainy image of a red pickup truck was released to the public on Tuesday.
“We’re going to use all resources available to bring this killer to justice,” Major Jesse Razo told reporters. “I urge you, whoever did this, you know who you are. Please turn yourself in now — because we will be looking for you, we will locate you, we will find you.”
Oh dear… that’s tragic
Oh my God. Poor baby. Prayers to her mom and siblings..
Sure is dark outside for 7AM. RIP little lady.
This makes me sick to my stomach. Literally. I mean I can’t even fathom her pain. This is so heartbreaking.
Senseless …. I can’t smh
Sounds incredibly suspicious…I don’t believe it was random
Wow: Just a random shooting on a Texas highway? Smh…I don’t even know exactly what to think.
Sounds strange
I cant. Prayers to that family
I need them to catch these monster.
I hope that mutherfawker gets in an accident and burns alive! Condolences to the family. I bet his ass was a redneck racist!!
If this is what actually happened, find him & terminate him. It doesn’t matter if he had a hard life, some type of addiction, or mental health issues.
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This story hurts my heart. The devil is real, road rage is real!! You never know who is who out there so it’s best to keep it moving when someone cuts you off or do some other mess. RIP sweet baby.
Please let them find that monster
No plates on the truck makes me think this was premeditated and they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
RIP Baby Girl and prayers to the family
I live in Houston, TX and when I saw this on this news I literally bursted into tears. I have a 6 year old nephew and I would die if this happened to him. Imagine a mother looking back and seeing her child dead from a bullet in the head. No parent deserves this. No child deserves this. I pray to God they find this murderer. RIP to this beautiful sweet angel.
That’s why they’re thinking road rage. As a Texas resident, I can say that the road rage down here is DEEP. They drive like animals down here.
KKK initiation hit
This sound like a KKK initiation hit. Or he’s related to someone in HPD…either way RIP baby girl
Girl I was in San Antonio in June and those highways are no joke!! 85MPH and them adding 10 and going 95?? I almost lost my shyte. There I was going 65-75 as is usual in my hood and people bearing down on me in the slow lane (and there were 6-7 lanes!!!) Next time I’ma use Lift or Uber!!
Ms. Sandra, Any info on how we can contribute to the reward for capture of the evil child murderer?
My brother graduated from the Air Force and it was held in Texas and my family said the Texas highways are insane. I just didn’t know it was to this degree. What a shame.
This is extremely disheartening ? I can’t imagine losing my child and that’s what makes me anxious bc u never know what might happen. Really makes me wonder if this was random or if there’s a story line
I can’t with these cowards killing babies.
Angel, rest heaven. God’s got you.
EFFFFFFF the 35K, VIGILANTISM is called for! HANG HIM IN THE TOWN SQUARE WHEN HE’S FOUND!!!
I don’t want to even think this wasn’t random.
But years ago a while woman shot her kids in the backseat of the car and said a man did it when she pulled over. Please I wish it didn’t happen at all but I hope it was random evil not organized.
Lord please forgive me. But when I saw that Jazmine’s dad is either Latino or white, I found it oddly coincidental a white man pulled up aside her car and shot inside. I pray the killer is not an angry ex of the mom.
Not believing it was random only makes us feel more safe. Random acts of violence happen every day
Hmmm…something is not right…
40 y/o yt male in Texas opens gunfire on a black family ?
*scratches head* where have I heard this story before … smdh… that cracka ass cracka ain’t turning himself in… smdh
I’m from Houston where this took place and road rage is horrible. In addition, we have the right to have our concealed weapons license and to carry. It’s a good thing, but can be terribly deadly at the same time. You don’t know whose carrying and folks have very low to no temperament. Honking at some one or pumping your brakes because they’re riding your ass will get you killed.
I live in Houston and it can be that dark at 7 am depending on the day. Today it has been raining and it was definitely that dark at 7 am. We have had very dense fog for the last 2 weeks so I am pretty sure it was dark at 7 am on Sunday but I was awake that early this past Sunday to be 100% sure.
Just like always white people, if that’s what you want to call them, will stay on code. Someone knows who he is but they will never turn him in. When he’s close to dying he’ll confess to all the Black people he’s killed. Then the entire white world will pacify and enable him being god like and speaking up until he dies a hero.
I detect some bullsh**! Theres A lot of holes in this story.??????
40 yo white texan. Sure. “Road rage”. Is that what they call hate crimes now?
With the “selection” of Trump and the age of no accountability, some of these otherwise, “weak ass well water” folk balls have swollen from here to kingdom come. It’s a damn shame and “he” is the catalyst for this tumultuous racial climate we have now.
Definitely a hate crime and road rage is very bad down here in Houston, Texas. Accidentally cutting some one off or pumping your brakes to get them off your tail could get you shot at and possibly killed. It’s real down here. But yeah, it’s a hate crime all day. RIP to the ‘lil princess.
Trump is the cause of this. There is an uptick of violence/hatred towards AAs since he stole the election. If you need proof , get a FBI report .. That being said….-its a shame that the Russia propaganda was all over social media 2016 influence AA men not to vote and they were dumb enough to fall for it. Being a dumb BAN is a travesty. Our ancestors are truly disappointed
Nothing but the devil he know his time is running out, and he come to steal, kill and destroy. We pray People. Things like this hurts my Heart.
Waking the children up on a Sunday morning to go get coffee at 7 AM?
People are tripping from all walks of life!!!!
Everybody is mad about something.
Before I knew any details a little voice said “drug deal gone bad”.
Uh that was on my mind too but I didnt’ want to say anything but since you said it well…..God Bless this family…smh
Kids are up at that time of the morning quite often. Maybe she just wanted to spend some time with her girls at Starbucks or something.
Really….the left brought out the right wing racists not Trump. It was odummer’s dumb policies that had everyone including me a black women shaking our heads Trump just passed the criminal reform act so now bm will have a second chance he also passed the neighborhood act reinvesting in the inner city that odummer ignored because he was too busy bending over for the homosexuals while being henppecked by the feminists while feeling guilty about not having his african muslim daddy in his life which is why odummer love muslim extremists! Check the facts and stop blaming our Preident for the madness of some white racist!!!
Possibly so… People don’t take their plates off to do good deads
and the murder tally forbm killing bm in Chitown, DC New York Baltimore is what?….thats right to many to count!…. smh
This story hurts soul ?
Sandra said 7:00 am on a Sunday morning for coffee with all your babies in the car…umh the truth will come out. I hope she is married because my husband would not ever have me at 7:00 am on a Sunday with our kids going to get coffee, no boo we going to church, God Bless this mother and family…smh
I read somewhere that her mother was visiting and she was making breakfast for everybody. I guess they went to get coffee.
the 7:00 am or just the whole d-mn thang?
I thought that seemed off..
Need more info before I comment.
RIP young soul??
Agreed
True for most, but in my family, kids are up before that to make up beds, wash face eat breakfast and clean up every morning. My brother still does this with his kids 13, 7, and 4, even now….
Well…My statement was made in ignorance. I didn’t know it was that deep in Texas. I hope what this woman’s says is true and nothing else is uncovered.
Everybody is a bunch of angry birds which is why I stick to myself.
This should be easy. Just run the truck’s description through DMV within the 3 states. How many RED pickups are there. With forensic photos they can zero in on the age of the truck.
Road rage is really “life rage” their lives are terrible they can be rednecks, hood, old/young, rich or poor they hate their life and take it out on innocent drivers on the road for no reason at all other than they don’t care about strangers that they will probably never see again anyway.
I found that a little suspicious, because doesn’t everybody have a coffee maker in their house? I have instant coffee, just pour hot water over it. Is she that poor that she can’t buy a coffee maker? Even instant coffee….hmmmm….makes you wonder.
Early reports said the kids all had on their PJ’s.
This just seemed strange to me…
why not leave them home?
She has probably beat herself up over that!
So sad!
No coffee in the house?
Sometimes you want coffee from the store so you can use all of the different additives.
I have ALL my favs at home…. including Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee.
Somebody knows EXACTLY who this is!
Hate crimes are REAL!!!
But at 7am on a Sunday morning, you’re going to take ALL your kids for coffee?
Prayers to the family of this beautiful little girl. Lord please let them find this monster.
There us NO WAY I would take a bunch of kids for a coffee run!
I WOULD NEED the coffee BEFORE I could deal with the kids.
We are on the same page. Strange.
Lmao ! Yep sounds like TX. The speed limits in the state are the highest in the country. I believe that’s why having car insurance in TX is so high as well. I’m not gonna lie, I’m a fast driver (I have a Camaro and a Mustang) so I don’t mind the high speed limits. You can’t come down here going 65. You WILL get ran off the road. I’ve seen it numerous times. A lady with Arkansas tags got ran off the road and she had a panick attack in emergency lane and passed out. The slowest I recommend on the highways (in order to avoid road rage) is about 80-85. The fast driving doesn’t phase me.
I agree. Time will reveal all. Nevertheless, my heart still hurts for this child.
Exactly !
Plus how many times have we got ready to walk out the door and the kid(s) be like I wanna gooooo…then we say something to the tune of well come on, you better be ready when I get to the car or you will be left…and the kid(s) grab their shoes and go as is… Just cause they want to go?
It all seems normal to me
Driving in TX is like Grand Theft Auto. Cars just blazing like bats out of hell everywhere. Lol
It’s deep and you’re good. but hey I’m thinking sideways too. My thoughts are going another direction too. I hope the mama telling the truth.
Especially if they think they’re gonna get something.
When my youngest sees us putting on “outside clothes” she heads for the door.
Exactly right about that, you can’t talk are Reason with others anymore .
Jesus 80-85?! The roads must be meticulous and no deer. Because ain’t no way my paranoid ass can keep that speed without assuming I’ll have a blowout or a Bambi darting onto the hwy. I can move with everyone else but 80-85 consistently will make my nerves bad
This young girl was a day short of making it into 2019. Why isn’t this being classified as a hate crime. I really try not to comment on stories like this it triggers so many instances where white folks kill us like dogs for no reason just for the thrill of it. A heart felt condolences to the mom and siblings.
Yea 80 is normal/regular. Anything slow will get you out of here. There have been times where I was going 85 and will have drivers all on my ass, getting mad and trying to get me to switch lanes. I never get over though. Going less than 80 actually makes my nerves bad. Especially when driving behind people who ride their brakes.
I drink coffee everyday. I have a Keuriq machine and I don’t have coffee in my house.
When I was little, my uncle got off work at 5 am and my grandmother would pick him up. My cousins and I would fight each other trying to rush to the car to tag along. I don’t find this unusual. My son is the same way. If he hears me up, he gets up.
This is super sad. I don’t get the attitude that if I don’t do something, it doesn’t sound right. Every time I leave the house my son wants to go, especially if I was going to the grocery store. I woke up this morning at 6am and my little one asked for Hot Chocolate at Starbucks. This is normal to me. Some of these comments are bizarre. Hell I have a Keuriq and I don’t have any K-Cups. I guess that’s wrong too.
There’s more to this story…
So sad. My condolensces to the family.
That said–y’all PLEASE be careful out in these streets.
I dunno the particulars of THIS case yet–so I’m speaking in general here…
If somebody cuts you off in traffic, or shoots you the finger, or won’t let you get over in traffic, or stops short in front of you…LET IT GO. Please.
My nephew called himself chasing down some dude who cut him off & threw a soda can at his car–they both ended up at an exit and the dude pulled a gun on him. Luckily, my neph pulled back and left.
Folks are CRAZY out in these streets.
Be careful.
Peace and light to the victims family.
This broke me down today.
I pray for their family and that they will see some sort of justice.
Girrrlll you would hate me behind the wheel!! When I picked up the rental car at the airport it was 1:30am and I was exhausted from a real messed up day of flying. My slow ass pulled into traffic going 60ish and almost cost a few accidents????? It’s 65 in CT!! I learned quick though but I still was a menace to those driving behind me for those days in TX ? BTW I love Mustangs and will be getting a purple custom one in the near future?
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More to this story. Sorry, but I don’t know just about any black momma who’s gonna wake up all them kids, get them to get dressed, just to run out for coffee!?!
One lie means there’s more going on..js
I hate to say it, but you right. Especially when you got a 16 year old that can watch them muhfuggahs.
How is it road rage if it’s unprovoked? It’s just murder plain and simple.
I need more information on this story. RIP Jazmine.
We’re you still fighting to tag along at 16?
With all those kids in the car?
Mine too
It happens, would you rather her leave them home alone? ??
Prayers for that baby!
Texas ain’t for me ? That’s too much…
A 16 year old should be response enough to watch after their siblings for less than 30 minutes while the mom makes a coffee run… at 7am on a Sunday morning they would most likely still be sleep if they aren’t going to church.
This is why we have a house of sharpshooters- maybe not me so much at the moment but I reach down in the door let the window down ALL THE WAY and tell the kids to lie down. Doesn’t matter the color – they can get it State of Texas license in hand and arms in the air……Probably why God is humbling me now. I don’t want a March- “ eye-for-a- eye only.
Not that this solves anything but please teach your babies to arm/protect themselves. Folks thrive on our lack of thought and temperment.
Praying for the mama, daddy and siblings couldn’t imagine this happening to anyone.
I race for money in that mustang. It’s one of two of my side hustles.
This situation has changed my life. We all bleed red…… stupidity/evil has no color. Took 38 years but O now know this to be true
Agreed- Very bizarre. And dehumanizing. As if a black mom doesn’t go on outing with her kids? My local breakfast place allows dogs so I’ve gone to pick up my mom’s dogs to chill up there early am.
It’s terrible when we are dehumanized by others and by each other smh
Junkies don’t care.
All they know is how they are going to get their next fix.
True! But I make my kids go on coffee run’s with me, maybe because they always want smthn from the store??
Honestly we don’t know the details, gotta wait before I oass judgment.
7am on a Sunday morning ??
You are right, especially in the holiday season. I love doing random rides.
Everyone worried about why? How about evil has hit and someone thinks it ok to kill someone because of their color. The reality is that or current leaders breed hate and this is one of the babies. WAKE UP
This story made me sick. I Drive on the interstate everyday and these idiots out there drive so crazy. I actually had a woman throw a bag of garbage out her window on to my car the other day and all I was doing was driving slow in the far right lane during a rainstorm. This is just a sad State of Affairs and I pray for this baby and her family and her mother. Folks don’t let bad driving rude cashiers or anything stupid and ridiculous make you mad. Just pray for these folks and keep it moving.
Road rage is so dumb to me
She was a student of mine, I was school nurse where she attends… This was during holidays where they had family over and everybody up all night or just up and wanted to go to the store with their mom. Nothing was wrong with that… They did nothing wrong… Bunb, Trae, and other civil right leaders and churches will be out this sat at the Walmart and going to door and car to car to help find this pig…. Rest on baby jaz…
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Here’s the go fund me link fyi:
https://www.gofundme.com/justice-for-my-daughter-jazmine
Right? Kids think going anywhere is exciting. This family is grieving, but people are turning it around on the mother?? Sick.
I just did it last Saturday…..and two Saturday’s before that – with all three of my daughters. No lie. We go to Dunkin Donuts. Some Saturday mornings i go by myself but this Black mother also enjoys the company of her children.
Yeah, I was looking for that too.
And BTW, I got 7. When they all were in the house i would often wake them up to go grab breakfast, go grocery shopping or whatever. Your comment reeks of the implication that Black women, in general, loathe time with their children. That simply is not the case.
I’ve done it as recently as last Saturday….it was 8tish though. My girls love it.
If you are actually waking your kids up in the middle of the night to get coffee then I question your parenting skills and perhaps child services should be checking in on you
My 13 yr old will set the clock to go with me.
I don’t. And i drink a cup almost every day.
waking up a house full of kids to get a cup of coffee for yourself very early in the morning = bad parenting. Like I said, you will be updating us shortly with the obvious
I’m outta here y’all. Foul play on the mothers part is possible. But it’s just as possible that she took her babies with her for the exact reason she stated. Folks on here acting like children are some kind of plague. Not everybody is running from their kids.
Who’s waking their kids up in the middle of the night? I said Saturday morning and the woman in the article took hers out at 7a.m.
Waking kids up was not even mentioned in the write up nor my comment.
I’m not understanding the point of your comment since nothing you mentioned was stated in the write up nor my comment.
Amen.
Lol.
Kids like to tag along. Is there an age limit to it?
But who said she woke them up???????
I like to start early. Sometimes i don’t plan on taking my kids. But if one catches me before i walk out the door, they want to come and i let them. As i stated before, my youngest has got hip and started to set her alarm. 5 am, I’m headed out the door and there she is in the living room, fully dressed…lol.
How can i tell her no?!?!
Agreed. Ppl are so strange. Always looking for another angle to justify outright MURDER
Lift her up in ??.
thank you for sharing… So sorry for the loss of your student.
Early reports said the kids were still in their pj’s….
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Bad parenting so they deserved to be shot at. That’s the accepted crime for your presumed diagnosis of bad parenting. You sound like you have more than a few screws loose or you are a white paid troll. Same difference.
What kind of parents did you all have?! My parents would wake us up all the time on the weekend, and we’d go out for breakfast/errands.
U r so incredibly ignorant
We should be up in arms.. they are killing babies now…
They are setting up the narrative for how this story is being spun…it happens all the time when melinated people are the victims…
i agree…and she got 3 other witnesses! interesting that the truck had no license plate. i don’t think that’s a coincidence or road rage. this MF knew he was gonna commit a crime or had already committed a crime.
then have the nerve to talk sh*t without even having the facts straights lol/smh
Middle of the night? The shooting happened at 7 AM! Sounds like you don’t know night from day.
damn, 7! we only had 3 of us and, wherever my mom went, we jumped in the car. the very few times she told us we could not go, we stood at the screen door crying lol.
it’s the holidays so it could have been a treat. i do a lot of extra sh*t for the holiday season. plus, if she had family over sleeping and the kids were up and noisy, she could have told them all let’s go and give everybody else quiet. a lot of scenarios.
My niece tags along with her mom and she’s 16.
I am in tears!!!!!!!!!!
*sniff sniff* thanks for sharing,
Is she that poor? Really? Newsflash: Everybody DOESN’T have a coffee maker in their home. That doesn’t make them poor. You sound real dumb. LIKE FORREAL!
I WOULD NEED the coffee BEFORE I could deal with the kids.
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Such a shame. Maybe you should seek help for that.
It’s so sad that the black woman has to be stereotyped in such a manner.
So the guy driving with no license plates and shooting into people’s cars at Walmart is innocent. Black women are blamed for everything maybe she said coffee but it was something else. Her 7 year old daughter had no business being shot.
Just because random acts of violence occur does not mean we should rule out the possibility that she knew this man or that this may have been a set up.
It had nothing to do with her race or gender the story sounds bizarre.
Yeah ok.
LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!! for ALL of you’s that have an ISSUE with this MOTHER taking HER CHILDREN with HER at 7am OR ANYTIME OF THE MORNING!, You ALL have the Issues!, there is NOTHING Wrong with the MOTHER doing this!, MY children MOVED when I MOVED whether there were other adults around to watch them while I ran an errand or whatEVER!…and MY grandbabies (MY precious LuvBugs) put on their shoes and grab their coats Whenever I MOVE!, They want to go with ME, or their Mother & Father even if it’s just to walk down the driveway to the mailbox! so STOP saying there is more to the story or the Mother seems suspect!! this MOTHER just lost HER 7 yr.old Angel, and people have the audacity to sit back and analyze a possible RIDICULOUS motive of the MOTHER… come on people REALLY!!!
You bout right. Can’t argue.
Unwad your panties I genuinely wanted to know.
Never said to rule it out
RIP to this beautiful young soul. Bottom line is this…A INNOCENT CHILD LOST HER LIFE….a family is grieving…..we should be sending prayers and asking God to find this man who did this and punish him accordingly…..PERIOD. My heart broke in a thousand pieces when I heard about this…then it broke all over again when I read this story. I have children and I feel so sad for the family. PERIOD.
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The stereotype is real and sad AF. I don’t understand why it’s so unbelievable that she was out for coffee with her kids at 7. I need my early morning coffee fix and will be in the kitchen at 5 am if that is when I woke up. She took the kids for a coffee run and something bad happened. Until I hear otherwise I believe this story.
My brother still talks about how all I had to hear was the keys jingle and I would be at the door waiting!! This story gives me the sads.
I wonder what is a good time for folks to, IF they do, take THEIR kid’s on a coffee run? SHEESH!
I have a coffee maker and Starbucks coffee in the house and my husband still goes out every morning to get his at Cumberland Farms. Dude be up and out 6 am, it does happen.
I totally agree with you. My son goes everywhere I go. Period.
Ikr! on Both of your sentence.
So sad….someone will turn in this racist MF…reward is up to 50K…karma’s a B….his ass will not get away with this child murder..
My son will be 22 in a few days and he still likes to tag along. When he’s home from school, he will even come to work with me.
Right, PERIODT!!!!
No need to seek help for enjoying how I CHOOSE to start my day!
My children enjoy moments to themselves before we start our day!
In fact my hubby may sit with me or use the quiet as he wants.
No HELP needed for that!
I wonder why you would think there is a need for help?
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IT can’t be classified as ANY kind of crime until they perp is found and the motive is clear. The simple fact that the shooter was white really is irrelevant at the moment. Besides, that kind of classification is done when the suspect is charged, not prior.
I don’t believe this was racially motivated. I believe one of them baby daddies set her up for murder (hire for murder) for custody of one or more of those kids. It just to don’t make sense right now. I bet that killer followed her to Walmart by plan….However, I might be wrong..HATE CRIMES ARE IN FULL EFFECT these days. Either way this was wrong taking an honest young life..SMH
See shit like this makes my blood boil.