The girl recalled that just before the fatal shooting, her mother called a relative and warned her that the man had a gun.
Cynthia Demerson, McHenry’s mother, said she immediately came over after Azariah called her.
“She said he was going to shoot her. That’s when I got in the vehicle and went over there,” Demerson told ABC13.that officers arrived shortly after and found McHenry inside her apartment suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. Demerson was treated for injuries she received at the scene, though police did not release additional information about how she was injured.
According to court records, Alexander’s bond was set to $1 million, and he is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.The number of women killed by intimate partners with a firearm has increased in recent years, from the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. Women make up 80% of the people killed by their intimate partners using guns in the United States, the group found.found that homicides by intimate partners in the Houston area have doubled in the past three years.
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