Houston,TX : Two charged in separate fatal hit-and-run crash on may, Friday 19th 2017
Two hours after a hit-and-run driver struck a bicyclist on Houston's northeast side, sending his body into a roadside ditch, Tawana Atkins sent an eerie text message to her sister, authorities said.
"I hit somebody sis," Tawana Atkins wrote about 5 a.m. April 27, according to a police office's sworn statement. "I don't know if they dead r not."
A minute later, she purportedly added: "I no im going to jail."
Authorities say Atkins' text messages tell a different story than the one she initially provided to a hit-and-run investigator who visited her single-story townhome near Cullinan Park in southeast Houston last month. After the police investigator noted a Chevy Tahoe out front with a damaged front grill, Atkins, a 32-year-old mother of four, told the officer she had damaged her vehicle the previous day after hitting a telephone pole while driving intoxicated, police said.
Prosecutors and police on Friday announced hit-and-run charges against Atkins as well as a man suspected in a separate crash last month. Police said at least one case would have been "virtually impossible" to solve without information from anonymous tipsters. Officials said hit-and-run cases are notoriously difficult to investigate and prosecute for lack of witnesses and evidence.
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Two charged in separate fatal hit-and-run crashes after Crime Stoppers tips