Tuesday afternoon update:
HOUSTON (AP) _ Houston police say a missing child whose mother was found dead has been found safe in Arkansas where his father has been discovered dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A Texas-wide Amber Alert had been issued for 14-month-old Tyemetheus Pack after his mother, Angel Jackson, was found dead earlier Tuesday in Houston. The 26-year-old woman last was seen Christmas Eve and had texted a message that she’d been shot.
The child’s father, Tumetheus Pack, 44, had been sought by police as a person of interest.
Houston homicide investigator Paul Vela says Pack and boy near Prescott, Arkansas, and accompanied by two other children and a woman. Arkansas state police say the shooting occurred as their car was being pulled over on Interstate 30 about 300 miles northeast of Houston.
Noon update:
KHOU-TV reports the child has been located and the father was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Original story:
HOUSTON (AP) _ Authorities have issued a statewide alert in their search for a missing child whose mother was found dead.
The Amber Alert was issued Tuesday as Houston police and other law enforcement personnel look for the 14-month-old boy.
He’s believed to be with his father, Tumetheus Levastavian Pack, who’s about 40 years old.
The Texas Center for the Missing says the child’s mother was found dead in Houston early Tuesday after previously texting that she had been shot.
Twenty-six-year-old Angel Jackson had been last seen Christmas Eve.
Authorities say Pack may be driving a 2006 green Chevrolet Suburban with Arkansas plates.