Police mentioned the detective was within the 10000 block of Cedar Touchdown on Jan. 12 searching for a suspect when a SUV pulled up subsequent to his passenger door.
The detective left the realm as a result of he didn’t really feel secure, however he then observed the suspects had adopted him onto Freeway 146, based on police. The detective notified different officers of the scenario, however shortly after, the suspects began firing.
Regardless of one of many photographs hitting the officer’s automobile, he was not injured.
Officers later discovered the suspects’ automobile at a residence off Booker Road. The three males – recognized as 22-year-old Travis Menifee, 30-year-old Ty Thompson and 33-year-old Melvin Thomas – had been detained and charged with aggravated assault with a lethal weapon.
Police mentioned this marks Menifee’s second aggravated assault cost after he was concerned in a separate capturing on Jan. 7 on Donovan Road.
In that separate incident, courtroom paperwork say Menifee was on the dwelling of Avion Scates, with a number of others, filming music movies. A while after the group completed filming, information say Menifee punched Scates within the face, pointed a pistol at him and demanded the sufferer give him “every thing,” information say. A number of gunshots had been exchanged by a number of different folks, hitting Scates.
Authorities spoke with Scates’ fiancée who mentioned Menifee was concerned within the aggravated theft.
The Baytown Police Division urges anybody with info on the Jan. 12 capturing to contact them at 281-422-8371, or they’ll depart a tip with Baytown Crime Stoppers at 281-427-8477.
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