Houston Boy, 11, Brutally Stabbed To Death In Random Attack On His Way Home From School

[Purveyor]

An 11-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a daylight attack in Houston Tuesday afternoon.

The child, identified by police as Josue Flores, was walking home from school near the 1900 block of Fulton Street when he was approached by his attacker.

Witnesses said they heard loud screaming and saw the child struggling with a man on the sidewalk around 4:45pm, according to the Houston Police Department.

The boy then collapsed on a nearby patch of grass with multiple stab wounds, police said. He was transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after the attack, which police called 'unprovoked.'

Witnesses said they saw a man fleeing the scene on foot, going north on Fulton Street.

Che Lajuan Calhoun, 31, was identified as a suspect in the killing.


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[Schema Thing]

1. this hurts my soul

[etherealtruth]

8. I hear you ... the entirety of my being aches

[moonbabygo]

25. it does hurt the soul

saddens me to think about it. How can you kill a child? What could this precious child have done or was it random act of killing?

[Shandris]

2. Not a coincidence that not even an hour or two ago, I posted a question about if anyone really...

...feels safe walking anywhere, and how I didn't understand it because I never feel 'safe'. While this kind of thing is unlikely to ever happen to me and I'm aware of that, unlikely does not mean won't. It's also unlikely someone's car is stalled at the bottom of the blind left turn in our park -- in fact, in 40+ years of life I'd never seen it happen before today -- but if I'd had my eyes closed, I'd be dead now. Please be aware, DU friends. Please.

My heart goes out to this family. Their troubles have only begun.

[Egnever]

9. I think feeling safe depends in large part where you live

I have lived places where I felt unsafe I have also lived places where I would walk the streets at 3 am without a second thought.

[derpderpderp]

3. The suspect is undergoing mental evaluation. Probably disturbed. We need better mental health care.

[uppityperson]

6. That's for sure.

[derpderpderp]

10. Couple years ago my brother in law was committed involuntarily, threatening to harm himself.

The hospital told us they had released him after a 24-hour evaluation, saying he was fine. He had been diagnosed bi-polar and schizophrenic. My wife picked him up wandering the streets near the hospital. Four days later he committed suicide with a gunshot to the head.

[cwydro]

24. Another poster here had he same experience with a family member.

Identical in fact.

[moriah]

22. We need better MH care, but most diagnosed mentally ill patients...

... don't kill anyone other than themselves.

http://abc13.com/news/us-marshals-nab-man-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-boy/1343138/

He may have issues, or may not, but a competency evaluation is standard to cover the arse of any prosecutor.

[moonbabygo]

26. Seems when the states get into

a budget crises programs for the disturbed are the first to get cut. When Reagun shut down all those mental institutions in the 80s most of those people became street people and the crime rate went up. So what did we do about it, we hired more cops.

[derpderpderp]

35. Yep. I'm In Raleigh NC and they closed Dorthea Dix Hospital

It was opened in 1856 with about 2500 acres for housing, farming, campuses, etc. All the patients were transferred to already crowded institutions. Today only 300 acres is left due to sell offs in the past. Raleigh decided to turn this land into a destination park.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Poor buddy

[linuxman]

5. Never been opposed to the death penalty, personally.

Rest in peace, kid.

[mahina]

13. Nor have I.

Heard all the arguments.

[Brickbat]

7. This country has the resources to give everyone the mental health, basic housing and life support

they need. What would it look like if we did that?

[joeybee12]

11. I don't think most of us realize what some people have to deal with daily...

fear for your children. I hope the sweet little boy is at peace.

[malaise]

12. Horrific

The suspect should be receiving mental health care. Those are not the eyes of a sane person.

What a beautiful little boy - so wrong.

[philosslayer]

17. Yes, hopefully he can get some help

n/t

[Marengo]

21. If you mean as in help up the steps of the scaffold, I agree.

[malaise]

23. Yes line up all those with mental problems

and hang them

[Marengo]

27. Nah, just those who murder children...

Not sure I'm interested in allocating state resources which are already in short supply for the maintenance of this animal. Because, after this, that's all it is going forward.

[Schema Thing]

29. mental illness does not give you a license to kill for your sport

who is the animal again?

[Marengo]

31. The state is the actor, not I, although it would be doing so with my approval...

And executing this individual based on his actions would be in the interest of public safety, not to satisfy any personal desire.

[Schema Thing]

32. The state has long ago determined that mental illness is not a reason

to take petty violence fantasies out on the mentally ill person, no matter how horrible their crime.

[Marengo]

33. if this person is indeed mentally ill, but too bad anyway. Child killers should dance...

The paddington frisk regardless.

[philosslayer]

39. Turns out the suspect had an alibi

If you look down thread. Yet you already had him on the gallows.

[Marengo]

40. And I suppose you can provide a quote in which I specifically stated...

he should hang without a trial and conviction. My statement presupposes this, but I think you know that. My point, if your not being deliberately obtuse, is that mental illness shouldn't spare whoever committed this act the noose. But, again, I think you know this. Take your schtick somewhere else, I don't buy it.

[GummyBearz]

30. A few sessions with a psychiatrist and he will be a an upstanding citizen, no doubt

no jail time should be given here, just some mental health help. He will then add value to society and the neighborhood he lives in.

[JI7]

14. horribly sad

[AngryAmish]

15. What are we to do?

[romanic]

16. Mental health care should be a must in the U.S.

But lets be honest, some people are just fucking evil and violent. The suspect may be mentally ill but he for sure is a murder who has to pay for the death of this poor kid.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

18. His trial hasn't begun. Houston Police Dept has a bad reputation...

This is a "suspect" people, not a convicted killer.

[Quackers]

20. How about U.S. Marshals? They are the ones who arrested the guy. nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

34. Presumed not guilty until a confession or the verdict is given still applies...

I did not read the link. Why were US Marshals involved in this kind of crime?

[Quackers]

36. If that's true, then you believe Zimmerman is innocent. The jury said so, right?

As a society, we defer to the legal system to determine innocence or guilt in an official capacity. That doesn't mean personal opinion or even common sense has no place here. Multiple witnesses seen this man grab the poor boy and stab him repeatedly. The boy has died as a result of the stab wounds. Common sense tells us that this man is guilty of killing the boy. Officially, the legal system has already determined that this man is probably guilty. They used this probable cause to arrest and detain him.

[uponit7771]

19. omg

[smirkymonkey]

28. Horrible. So sad.

Poor little boy! It pains me to know how terrified he must have been in his last moments.

[renate]

37. I have been thinking about this boy all day

I just can't get him out of my mind... he looks a lot (especially his smile) like someone I love very much, which is probably part of it, but also I'm just so heartsick over the pointlessness of an innocent life being cut so short and so horribly.

Thank goodness the killer has been caught. The family's grief is already unbearable, but it would have been even worse to think of the murderer getting away scot free.

[renate]

38. they haven't caught the murderer after all

... maybe he really will get away with it.

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2016/05/murderer-is-still-on-the-loose-after-charges-dropped-against-man-accused-of-stabbing-houston-boy.html/

[bigwillq]

41. How sad.

RIP