Man arrested for 'striking' girlfriend with U-Haul truck and killing her after early morning argument: Sheriff's office

Inset: Bobby Joe McCullah, Jr. (Harris County Sheriff's Office). Background: The thoroughfare wherever the suspect allegedly deed his woman with a U-Haul motortruck successful Humble, Texas (Google Maps).

A Texas antheral is down bars aft sidesplitting his woman with a U-Haul truck, instrumentality enforcement successful the Lone Star State says.

Bobby Joe McCullah, Jr., 35, stands accused of 1 number of execution implicit the decease of 35-year-old Amber Mauceli.

The incidental occurred Friday greeting connected Ravendale Road successful Humble — a tiny municipality successful the northeastern Houston metro area.

Authorities allege the suspect killed the unfortunate by "striking" her with "a deadly weapon, namely, a centrifugal vehicle," according to a comparatively threadbare transgression ailment obtained by Law&Crime.

At astir 5:15 a.m. that morning, Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the determination — adjacent Old Humble Road and Homestead Road — successful effect to reports of a pistillate who had been deed by a U-Haul truck, instrumentality enforcement said.

Witnesses astatine the country told investigators they heard McCullah and Mauceli successful a verbal altercation conscionable minutes earlier the 911 telephone was made, the sheriff's bureau said successful a press release.

"Mauceli [was found] lying unresponsive successful the roadway with injuries accordant with being struck by a vehicle," the sheriff's bureau said. "EMS responded and pronounced her deceased astatine the scene."

That aforesaid day, the suspect was located and arrested.

While the charging papers is mostly conclusory, a tribunal bid referring a bail determination to the territory tribunal elaborates connected the allegations of the case, according to instrumentality enforcement.

The justice wrote:

Officer arrived connected country and observed [the victim] lying connected the crushed successful the mediate of the roadway suffering from being tally implicit by a conveyance and sustaining aggregate abrasions accordant with roadworthy rash. [The victim] was pronounced deceased connected scene. [Witnesses] stated that they observed [the victim] being struck by a U-Haul motortruck and [the truck] fly the scene. Officer spoke to friends of [the victim] and [defendant], and she stated that they owned a Dodge Charger and a U-Haul truck, which nary 1 different than the [defendant] and [the victim] drove. Surveillance shows that astatine 4:54 americium [defendant] and [the victim] were arguing and that astatine 5:11 americium [the victim] was struck by the U-Haul and tally over.

After that, the U-Haul allegedly near the scene.

Later, a radical of students allegedly told a sheriff's lawman that the "U-Haul struck [the victim]," truthful she located the motortruck "and asked [defendant] if helium deed anyone, and helium stated no," the bid says.

The lawsuit is being investigated arsenic an intimate spouse homicide, according to the sheriff's office.

McCullah is presently detained successful the Harris County Jail awaiting a enslaved determination.

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