Mom driving home with sons killed when teens shoot into car, Texas cops say. 2 charged
Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the death of a mother who was fatally shot while driving home with her kids, Texas police said.
Leashtian Blanks, 17, of Houston was arrested March 27 and charged as a adult with murder, according to a Houston Police Department news release.
The second suspect, 16, was referred to Harris County Juvenile Probation authorities on a murder charge, police said.
Houston police said 37-year-old Isha Goff was driving home with her 3-year-old and 13-year-old sons on Feb. 23 when two suspects “approached and immediately fired shots into her vehicle,” McClatchy News previously reported.
Officials said Goff used her body to shield her teenage son who was sitting in the passenger seat, KHOU reported.
Goff was struck multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene, but her sons were not injured, police said.
Goff’s godmother, pastor Gladys Pratt Seahorn, told KHOU that Goff’s 13-year-old son, a track and field athlete, is forced to re-live that February evening whenever he hears a race’s starting gun.
“It startled him because he remembered the gunfire,” Seahorn told the station.
Details about a possible motive or the events leading up to the fatal shooting have not been released.
Blanks is being held on a $150,000 bond, according to court records.
McClatchy News reached out to Blanks’ attorney for comment March 28 but did not receive an immediate response.
