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Their grandmother was visiting. She always excites them very early. The preparation of breakfast is a family affair. But the coffee basket was empty and Washington does not like the days that begin without a new cup of beer.
Her daughters are always "on my heels", she said. "Wherever I go, they want to go with mom."
A glow before dawn swept the Houston area upon their departure. The music sounds on the radio. A traffic light has turned red near Walmart in northeastern Harris County. Washington said she wondered if they had perhaps overtaken those of Joe V.
It was a mundane conduct with the exception of one small thing. Washington, 30, and her daughter Alexis Dilbert noticed a red or brown pickup truck. The truck initially stopped on the passenger side. He then rolled up on the driver's side. Alexis looked.
"Do you know when you drive and look in someone's car and make eye contact? It's like that," she said.
"Mom, Jazmine does not move"
[19659002] The traffic light has turned green. Then the shooting started. Washington did not hear the first shot. Alexis neither. A bullet broke the window of Washington. The truck has accelerated. The driver pulled the trigger again. Now, Washington has heard the shot.
She did what most mothers would do, even after taking a bullet. She pressed the brakes. Then she used her body to protect Alexis, her eldest, who was sitting next to her. The girls at the back were not protected.
"Come down!" she told them.
"Mom, he stopped, he stopped," shouted a girl. "I think he's coming back."
The van appeared to back down when the driver suddenly got off the train and accelerated.
"I think I'm hit on my arm," Washington told the girls.
Alexis, 15, checked on his sisters. She called their names. They have always sat in the same order. A girl is complaining of neck pain.
"Mom, Jazmine does not move," said a sister. "She does not speak."
Alexis shouted Jazmine's name. Thrice. No answers.
Washington lit the dome light. She looked back. Jazmine was slumped against the back door with a head injury.
"Blood was everywhere," CNN told her mother, tearing herself apart.
"My baby does not answer at all"
Washington asks one of her teenage daughters to call 911. Alexis has examined the nearest hospital on her smart phone. . There were only seven minutes left
She turned around and headed for the hospital. Then the car started to whistle.
"Yes, the tire is worn out," she said to her daughters sobbing. "I can not do more, I'm sorry."
"Mom, please, we can not lose you," cried a girl. "Please, wake up, we can not lose you."
Washington will faint soon.
"Get help, please, ask for help," she told the two teens. The girls jumped to report drivers on the highway.
"We just started screaming as if someone wanted to come and no one stopped," Alexis recalls. "Everyone did not stop doubling us."
Even the 6-year-old Washington athlete jumped on the highway to get help. A few minutes passed before a good Samaritan stopped.
"Sir, can you just go get my baby and take him to the hospital?" Washington implored. "My baby does not answer at all."
"I do not want to move her," he said.
"My baby has to go to the hospital. "
A policeman came in. Jazmine was not breathing," he told Washington, "An ambulance driver told him that Jazmine was seriously injured."
"I think he did not want me to say (Jazmine was already dead) at the time, "said Washington.
Washington was rushed to hospital and treated for gunshot wound in arm. Jazmine died in the back seat
"I knew," said Alexis, "as she did not say anything. I knew it. "
" Heartbreaking Weekend in Harris County "
The end of 2018 was a heartbreaking time for Harris County, Sheriff Ed. Gonzalez.
Houston-born Gonzalez was a homicide detective who served for three terms as a city council member.In 2016, he was elected Sheriff of the county's most populous county. , with 4.6 million inhabitants.
Before noon last Sunday, Gonzalez tweeted "A heartbreaking weekend in Harris County. @HCSOTexas investigated the following points: a child aged 2 & 17 years old. dies of a car accident and a victim of 7 year shots. Past soon. That they rest in peace and that the Lord comforts the families. "
The sheriff's office first described the shooter as a white, bearded man, perhaps in his forties and was wearing a red hoodie
It was not clear if the shooting was random or targeted Gonzalez told reporters that the investigators thought "it was totally flawless." They do not know if the shooter shouted anything to his victims when he pulled the trigger.
"Nothing indicates that the family did anything wrong, in any way," he said.
"They were just driving on the road when it happened to them. "
Washington claims that she believes the race played a role.The white truck driver clearly saw" a black mother with four beautiful children, girls, in this car, "she said.
Investigators broadcast an enhanced surveillance video of the pick -up to extended cab and urged residents to call with contacts. They asked people with access to a surveillance camera around Wallisville Road and E. Sam Houston Parkway to check their images. The councils flocked but the shooter remains free.
A sketch of the suspect was compiled from descriptions of Jazmine's mother and her three sisters. He was showing a white man in his forties with a shadow at 5 o'clock and a hoodie.
"We will not rest until justice is done in Jazmine," said Gonzalez.
The sheriff stated that he had never met Jazmine, but had been struck by the "million dollar" smile in his photos.
"Please, keep this family in your prayers," he wrote in a Facebook message. "In total, 5 occupants of the car saw this child, their beloved, being shot in front of their eyes, so absurd that it is never easy and very difficult during the holidays."
'These People Are Injury'
Jazmine's death, the penultimate day of 2018, plunged the Houston area into mourning and has attracted the country's attention.
"I have to sit down with a lot of families who are experiencing the most tragic event that any of us can imagine," he said. "These people are suffering."
NFL star DeAndre Hopkins knows that nothing can make up for the loss of a child, but the receiver of the Houston Texans star donates his playoff play check to Jazmine's family for Demonstrating Community Support
Hopkins was to win $ 29,000 for the Saturday AFC Wild Card game against the Indianapolis Colts in Houston.
"It could have been anyone from my family," said Hopkins, who tweeted this week that Jazmine was reminding him of his own 5-year-old daughter.
"I was just trying to be a light, trying to help" 19659054] More than 2,400 donors contributed to a GoFundMe account to cover Jazmine's funeral expenses and to support his family.
"They are not alone," said Hopkins, 26. Jazmine's family. "The city supports them, many people in America support them and many people pray for them."
On Saturday, hundreds of people attended a rally in front of the Walmart near the road where Jazmine was killed. Washington told the crowd that Jazmine would have celebrated his birthday next month.
"I tell you, every time I see one of you reach out, I can raise my head," she said. "I can get up in the morning."
"Who is the child? Our child," chanted the crowd.
The US representative, Sheila Jackson Lee, whose neighborhood includes a part of Houston, said Jazmine was "the child of everyone" and asked that federal resources and forces Order be assigned to hunt his killer.
"She is the child of the nation," she told the crowd. "She is seen around the world."
Jazmine will also be remembered on Tuesday at the Justice for Jazmine Barnes community rally honoring "all murdered victims in Houston / Harris County," organizers said.
Services to Jazmine are scheduled to begin at 10 am Tuesday with a visit to Green House International Church. His funeral is at noon. People in mourning are planning to release purple balloons – Jazmine's favorite color.
"She loved the world"
