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| Outraged Texas stumps up $10k reward for info in murder of military vet killed outside retirement home |
| 2024-09-04 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Outraged Texas officials have stumped up the reward for any information about the suspect who killed a military veteran outside his retirement home. Nelson Beckett, 90, a US Navy veteran, was shot and killed by an unidentified carjacker outside the Lonestar Senior Living Apartments in Houston on Saturday. He was sitting in his car when the man approached him, assaulted him and shot him, according to Fox News. The perpetrator then stole Beckett's belongings and his vehicle before mowing him down with it. Beckett's car was later found abandoned at an apartment complex on Dunlap Street, around three miles away. The 90-year-old was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to ABC13. As the search continues for the thief, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Monday that anyone with information who could bring him to justice will receive $10,000. Crime Stoppers of Houston is also offering those with information about the suspect a $5,000 reward - bringing the total reward money up to $15,000 for anyone who could help police track down the suspect. He has been described as a black man aged between 25 and 30, per Fox News. In the meantime, family and friends are remembering the veteran as a kind and funny man. He spent much of his retirement helping others, including by driving people without cars to doctor's appointments and Sunday church service. Beckett even offered his home as a halfway house, taking lodgers to panhandle and driving them to church where he even baptized some of them. 'He loved big and loved his family so much,' his daughter, Tami Freund told Fox News. 'To him, everyone had value, and he would do anything for anyone.' He also loved meeting new people and often greeted them with jokes or by handing out his business card which read 'my card,' Freund said. 'Nelson was a comedian of sorts,' Steve Sandifer, a friend of Beckett's for 47 years, added to Click 2 Houston. 'He always had a funny story. And so when he started talking about, well, "there was this man..." you knew it was a story, not a true thing. And you'd get around to the point eventually. 'But he was a very loving man, a very caring man. He was just a good, faithful Christian man. He loved Jesus. He loved his church.' Sandifer also shared a story about Beckett's time in the Navy. 'He was in the Navy when they were doing the atomic bomb tests that went on. He was on a ship when the Bikini Atoll bomb was detonated,' he said. 'He talked about all the guys getting on the deck of the ship, and they told them to turn their back to the island. 'Evidently, they were human guinea pigs to see what was going to happen,' Sandifer said. 'He remembered the light was very, very bright. And it was like, some of the x-rays you'd see in the cartoons where the light was just immense.' Beckett grew up in Oklahoma City, where he married his wife of 55 years. The two then moved to Houston in the early 1960s with their two children. At the time of his death, Beckett had five grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren with another on the way. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 Thank you for the name, ed. From WLTX: The judge said this entire incident was caught on surveillance video. Beckett died as a result of a gunshot wound to his lung and trauma from being run over by the car, according to the judge. Arceneaux, 21, was out on bond when this incident occurred. He was awaiting trial for an evading arrest charge from 2022. The judge denied bail for Arceneaux. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-09-04 23:44 |
| #5 Suspect identified as 21-year-old Kyliel Denzel Arceneauz. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-09-04 20:57 |
| #4 Sadly, did not resist. |
| Posted by: Squinty+Hatfield8204 2024-09-04 12:50 |
| #3 Suspect in custody. That's all the info at the moment. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-09-04 11:15 |
| #2 That’s a fairly specific description. One wonders if he isn’t a known wolf… |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-09-04 09:04 |
| #1 He has been described as a black man aged between 25 and 30 Wait isn't that racist? /sarc |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-09-04 07:22 |