A man drove his car into a crowd of pedestrians outside a Houston gay bar Wednesday night, killing one person and injuring at least four others.
25-year-old Cordale Robinson accellerated through the busy parking lot outside Bayou City Bar & Grill at around 2 am in the queer-friendly Montrose neighborhood.
“It just appeared out of nowhere and he just came in and started hitting and running over people and dragging people and tearing up people’s cars,” a witness to the attack, Teanna Macintosh, told The Houston Chronicle.
“It was just blood everywhere,” she added. “It was so sad.”
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According a friend of Robinson and the owner of the car, Caltrell Jones, Robinson was attacked by a group of people over a cellphone before getting into the vehicle.
Jones told local news his friend did not intend to hit anyone — that he was merely trying to get away from his own attackers.
“He lost his phone in the club. He asked a couple people, ‘Have you seen my phone?’ and I guess they didn’t like the way he asked. So, when we left the club, that’s when they approached him, ‘So, what were you saying the club?’ And then they jumped him,” Jones told KTRK.
Police, however, say the collisions were intentional, and that Robinson drove through the parking lot at least twice.
Robinson was charged with aggrevated assault and murder and taken to a nearby hospital.
“I’m sorry that happened to the guy. I really am. But my best friend has good intentions. He didn’t do it on purpose,” said Jones.
25-year-old Jared Jacobs (above) suffered the brunt of the violence and was eventually pinned underneath the stopped car. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Jacobs recently graduated from nursing school and was working at Houston Methodist as an ICU nurse.
“He just graduated from Lamar University,” Edwin Lopez, a friend of Jacobs, told KTRK-TV. “We decided to go to college, make something of ourselves and we decided to come out and just have fun, you know and then this happened.”
Houston Methodist released the following statement:
“With deep sadness, we learned of the death today of Jared Jacobs, a nurse in Houston Methodist San Jacinto Hospital’s ICU, following a tragic incident early Thursday morning in Houston.
“Jared’s life was taken after a vehicle hit several people in the parking lot of a Montrose area business. Jared was an eager recent graduate of nursing school who was already an incredible asset to the ICU. His colleagues describe a bright smile and welcoming personality that lifted everyone around him.
“Jared, 25, began his nursing career as a new graduate nurse in the ICU and participated in the summer 2017-’18 Nurse Residency Cohort. He quickly became an invaluable member of the ICU staff because of his superb nursing skills and dedication to his patients. His eternally positive outlook and wonderful sense of humor made him a favorite of patients and co-workers alike.
“At times like this, the Houston Methodist San Jacinto Hospital family must hold each other up and keep Jared’s family in their thoughts and prayers.”
Kangol
Such an awful, unnecessary incident, and now a poor young man is dead. RIP Jared Jacobs.
Keebler ILF
Those were some interesting, and very credible, eyewitnesses in that video.
To paraphrase Trump, there were BAD people on both sides.
Was the guy who died one of the people who attacked the driver?
DCguy
Interesting, a brand new account comes on to push the narrative that the guy was attacked. Funny that the cops didn’t see it that way.
Keebler ILF
If you are you referring to me as brand new, I’m not.
And my comment was based on the info the eyewitnesses gave reporters
in “The Houston Chronicle” video link above? Did you bother to check that out?
Juanjo
There is nothing to support your claims or questions. The report states a friend of the assailant claimed there had been an earlier attack on the assailant and the collision was an accident while the assailant was trying to escape his pursuers. He did not mention the victim. The investigating officers stated the assault was intentional. So either you cannot read for content or you are just another troll making shit up.
Jaxton
Sad and horrible.
seaguy
Sad he was cute too.
CanadianGuy62
Yeah, if he had been ugly, would we really have given a F@$#?!
Very mature commenting on your part, seaguy.
Coreydnyc
So sad heartbroken
Ummmm Yeah
Hopefully only the people that jumped him got hit.
Juanjo
The report states a friend of the assailant claimed there had been an earlier attack on the assailant and the collision was an accident while the assailant was trying to escape his pursuers. He did not mention the victim. The investigating officers stated the assault was intentional. You are just continuing to be a douche bag, ummmmm?
Bob LaBlah
There’s a law in Texas from the 1800’s still in effect that states you can use deadly force at night if someone is stealing your property. It was meant for cattle rustlers. It was used effectively as a defense in the case of the guy who shot and killed a guy who was repossessing his car one night. The guy was in the right to repossess the car and the guy who shot him had the right to protect his property at all costs since it was at night.
My sincerest hope is that law does not apply in this case. But hey, that is Texas and down there just about anything goes.
barkomatic
Young, handsome and starting out in a great career. All that makes it especially tragic.
CanadianGuy62
Yeah…good for him that he wasn’t old and ugly. Had he been, how many fewer of us would have clicked and read?!
What a stupid thing to say, barkomatic.
Smith David
So much promise. Terribly sad. And aside from that, I know all too well how stressful nursing school can be.
I’m not surprised that he wanted to dance all that stress out. R.I.P my prayers are with his family and friends.
Bob LaBlah
Its sad a missing phone is the root cause of all of this. A nurse, in my opinion, is just as valuable as a police officer, especially a gay nurse for our community. I’ve been in the hospital before and luckily I picked up on quick that I had two gay nurses taking care of me. This is a very tragic loss that I hope he pays dearly for what he did. That was no accident. For a group of guys to get angry enough to beat the crap out of some one who wouldn’t get out of their face screaming about a damn phone there must have been this guys entire life on that phone with no chance of coming back. Its like the sun wasn’t going to rise unless he retrieved it. Yes, let him sit in the hot Texas desert for fifty years or so and let him spend every day wondering was that missing phone worth all of what he caused.
Darryl
So sad. My condolences to this young man’s family and friends. Rest in peace.