South Houston: Woman struck by her date's vehicle; driver crashes blocks away, police say

HOUSTON - Houston police are investigating a hit-and-run early Thursday morning after a woman was found injured on a roadway.

Hit-and-run in south central Houston

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What we know:

Around 3 a.m., officers with the Houston Police Department and the Houston Fire Department received calls about a pedestrian crash at the intersection of Dennis Street and Nagle Street.

When they arrived, a woman was found in the road with head injuries. She was treated at the scene by HFD paramedics and taken to a nearby trauma center.

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Officials say as they were working on the woman, another call came in about a crash six blocks away near Elgin and Delano Street. A 2022 Mercedes allegedly crashed through the campus of a school and ripped out a fence on Delano.

The driver left the disabled vehicle tangled in the fence and ran from the scene, police report. However, they found the alleged driver later near Isabella Street.

He was taken into custody, according to police.

What we don't know:

The woman and the driver have not been identified.

What allegedly happened

Houston woman struck by her date's vehicle; driver claims he was fleeing robber

While a hit-and-run victim isn't pressing charges against the driver, Houston Police are investigating what led up to the incident early Thursday morning. FOX 26's Leslie DelasBour broke down the allegations and spoke to a witness who helped the suspect call authorities.

Dig deeper:

HPD says a woman and man who used to date went out to dinner. The man who was driving then dropped the woman off on Dennis and Nagle Streets.

As she went to hug him goodbye, she was hit by his car. 

How’d that happen? 

The driver told HPD someone tried to rob him by jumping into his car through an open passenger window along Dennis and Nagle and held a gun at his head.

The driver claims he drove forward trying to shake off the robbery suspect, who was only partially in the car. Instead, he says he accidentally hit the young woman.  

The driver didn’t stop after hitting her. He told police he drove off, still trying to shake the would-be robber loose by trying to hit a tree, but crashed into a gate Ryan Middle School on Delano and Elgin. 

Someone there made another 911 call. When the police got there, the driver was gone. 

‘I never opened my door’

What they're saying:

HPD says the driver ran towards Isabella Street where he jumped into the backyard of a woman’s home.  

She didn’t want to be identified on camera, but she told FOX 26 what she remembers.  

"I was asleep, and I heard someone knocking at my glass door, and he was hollering his name. So after that, he wanted me to call his parents. I called his parents and I told him I was calling the police, so I called the police also, and he said he was hurt, so I called the ambulance too. I never opened my door. From then on, the police got him and his parents was out there with him," said the neighbor. "I’m sick, and I’m feeling real bad, and I hate he even did anything like that. I don’t want any of his people, any of his relatives, any of them around me." 

Investigation continues

What's next:

HPD says the woman does not want to press charges against the man who was driving the vehicle, and they are still investigating his claims that he was trying to get away from a robber when he struck the young woman.