Wilmon Smith News Today

Families and Hitchcock PD's chief express frustration over the lack of cleaning at Mainland Memorial - a historic Black cemetery.

Owners of an apartment complex where people were living without air-conditioning had numerous crews onsite Wednesday making repairs, Police Chief Wilmon Smith said.

City officials last week intervened to move four families out of the Summit at Independent Missionary Village apartments, 6607 Prino Road, because they were living in miserable and unsafe conditions.

The facility was bug-ridden and didnt have air-conditioning. A severely dehydrated woman was transported to University of Texas Medical Branch Jennie Sealy Hospital, police said.

The city would cover the costs of four hotel rooms with its own revenue until the complexs owner repairs the air conditioning.

Hitchcock Police Chief Wilmon Smith posted a statement criticizing the president of a company that owns the an apartment complex asserting the tenants are living in “miserable” conditions. Property managers

The police chief of Hitchcock, Texas Wilmon Smirh is pleading with local apartment management to fix A/C for residents in the heat.

Action 13 gets results for Hitchcock neighbors who were forced to sweat it out without working A/C. The town's police chief also applied pressure.

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A man who admitted to raping a 13-year-old girl was fatally shot earlier this month by police officers in southeast Houston, Texas, who were trying to