Woman bursts into apartment, tries to choke toddler. ( Then it gets weird )

HoustonChronicle.com ^ | Jan. 8, 2003 | PEGGY O'HARE

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

A woman who had smashed into a southeast Houston apartment and tried to choke a small boy -- fending off his frantic family with a shard of glass -- was being examined in a hospital Wednesday after police finally subdued her, officers said.

Even after being restrained and loaded into an ambulance, the 29-year-old woman broke free and fought with the ambulance crew on the way to Ben Taub Hospital, police said.

The 2-year-old child who was attacked, David Nguyen, was treated and released from Ben Taub, along with his grandfather, Tai Nguyen, 54, who was bitten on the arm while trying to rescue the boy, officers said.

Hospital officials would not release any information about the woman's condition. Police said she appeared to have been under the influence of some type of drugs, but no charges had been filed late Wednesday.

The incident occurred shortly before 9 a.m. at an apartment in the 3700 block of Southlawn, where the grandfather was with his 20-year-old daughter and her 2-year-old son, police said.

The man said he heard his front door crash open and his front window shatter before the woman walked in and grabbed the boy.

She tried to choke the child, police were told, and held his relatives at bay with a large piece of glass when they tried to rescue him.

The grandfather tried to grab the glass, but the woman bit his right forearm, police spokesman Alvin Wright said.

Several people outside the apartment witnessed the incident, but refused to get involved, Wright said.

Bystanders flagged down a police officer, who investigated and was met by a badly frightened, bloody woman who was holding the toddler, Wright said. The child had small cuts on his head, possibly from pieces of glass, Wright said.

While the officer talked with the family, another woman covered in blood, holding a large piece of glass, came around the corner. When the officer stepped out of his car, the woman started screaming at him and ran toward him with the glass, Wright said.

The officer, backing up, called for other officers to help and ordered the woman to drop the glass. She then got on the ground and took off her clothes, Wright said. Other officers arrived and subdued the woman until an ambulance arrived. She was bleeding from her left wrist, police said.

As police followed the woman's ambulance to the hospital, the ambulance's rear doors swung open, and officers saw the woman fighting with the crew inside the vehicle, Wright said.

Officers stepped in to assist the ambulance crew, but the woman continued fighting at Ben Taub Hospital, police reports said.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Wow! Two raving lunatics for the price of one.

[Chemnitz]

No doubt the local Democratic Underground chapter had just recessed.

[RightOnline]

Well, I don't believe in hitting a woman.........far from it. However, in this case, I would definitely have made an exception.

She would have........ahem........been "sleeping" on her way to the hospital.

[dtel]

"She then got on the ground and took off her clothes,"

Whew, it turns out to be just a PETA protest, I was worried for a minute there. ;^)
On a serious note, the cops showed some restraint here by not plugging her.

[mgc1122]

Be sure to disarm your family by throwing away the eeeeevil gun so when nutballs like this come crashing through the front door, you can rely on the power of the state in the form of the 9-1-1 system to save the day .....
,br> /genetically defective liberal

[flyervet]

What makes you think the family wasn't armed?

[chuknospam]

Some lead therapy would have calmed her down for her trip to the hospital morgue.

[FreedomPoster]

The fact that this nutcase didn't get plugged by the family?

[mgc1122]

Because she wasn't shot dead for the attempted murder of a toddler ... and even if I couldn't get a shot off, I'd have stuck a knife in her, smacked her on the head with a baseball bat or something ... but at the end of the day, my kid would be alive, and this broad would be tango uniform.

[DWSUWF]

"...Well, I don't believe in hitting a woman.........far from it. However, in this case, I would definitely have made an exception..."

I'm nowhere near the 'gentleman' you are...

They'd have needed a snow shovel to load the bitch onto the gurney if she went postal like that in my living room.

[csvset]

I'm posting a link to a video report of the story. There wasn't two crazy women, just one. Well worth the click. Note, the crazy woman was carrying a Bible. Lol, help me Lord.

Video link

[moyden2000]

Just another angry, embittered feminist.

[flyervet]

You don't think it's possible that this woman got between the family and their gun, like the gun-owning family who was killed this summer in VA, do you? I don't suppose that it's occured to you that the woman was so close to the child, and moving so erratically while holding the child that a safe shot might have been impossible. Of course, the same is true for a stabbing ("I tried to stab her and she ducked. That's when I cut my son's throat, doc,") and a beating ("I started hitting her with the bat and she stabbed my son in the heart, Mr. Coroner sir,")

It's easier to talk big than actually rescue a child from the arms of a deranged psychopath without further endangering the child.

[flyervet]

Do you wear a gun all the time in your house?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Thank you for the correction. I found this through Fark.com.

I was thinking the crazy woman could be Maureen Dowd.

[ClearCase_guy]

The grandfather tried to grab the glass

Not the plan of attack I would have chosen.

[An.American.Expatriate]

I do hope that the LE knows that they must now read the Miranda Rights to all of the presumed or assumed "assailants" which might have been habitating in the body of this crazy women either before, during or after the fact. To do otherwise would violate on of her "personalities" constitutional rights.

[wimpycat]

Angel dust?

[isthisnickcool]

Do you wear a gun all the time in your house?

Nobody does, of course. Most people take theirs off when they use the shower or take a bath.

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

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