Results tagged “sanluispass”

A tragic tale from north Harris County yesterday: A 2-year-old boy drowned in a retention pond near his home while he was apparently searching for a lost puppy. Police believe the boy, Darius Allen, sneaked out of the house — where he was being watched by two siblings, aged 7 and 11, while their parents were at work — and followed the dog through an empty, unfenced lot before he fell into the pond. According...

Remember Jim Stevenson, the bird expert accused of shooting a cat to death at San Luis Pass last week? He hasn't admitted that he shot the cat, but the Chronicle reports today that the incident apparently wouldn't be that unusual for Stevenson, who claims to have shot dozens of cats after building his home on Galveston Island in the late 1990s. The anti-cat manifesto came in a 1999 Internet posting:

Yesterday, a man in Galveston was jailed for killing a cat with a .22-caliber rifle. That man just also happens to be the founder of the Galveston Ornithological Society.