HOUSTON – Charges have been filed against two suspects arrested in the fatal shooting of a 50-year-old woman who was found dead in an apartment parking lot on Dec. 5.
Reginald Plair, 30, and Laquinta Dewayne Powell, 33, are charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Angelina Romero-Alvarez.
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Romero-Alvarez was about to get into her vehicle in the parking lot of the Wilcox Apartments in the 2400 block of South Loop West around 6 a.m. At some point, as she stood outside her vehicle, Romero-Alvarez was shot.
Witnesses reported seeing an unknown vehicle driving away from the scene.
Investigators learned two other women were robbed and shot the same morning, in less than two hours.
About 5:50 a.m., a 47-year-old woman was in an apartment complex parking lot at 10201 Telephone Road when she was shot and robbed by a man seen driving a white, four-door vehicle, possibly a Chevrolet Impala.
About 7:20 a.m., a 70-year-old woman was in an apartment complex parking lot at 6922 South Loop East when she was also robbed and shot by a man seen driving in a white sport utility vehicle. Both women suffered non-life-threatening wounds.
Further investigation developed information on Blair and Powell as suspects in Romero-Alvarez's murder.
Plair was arrested on December 10 and Powell was taken into custody on Thursday without incident. Plair is also charged in the robbery/shootings of the other two victims that occurred the same morning of the murder.
Anyone with information on any additional suspects in these cases is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.