‘They killed an angel’
Families of 2 Humble teens, tourist from N.J. fatally struck at car meet call for crackdown
Roger Glover saw the bustle around a northwest Houston parking lot packed with deckedout cars and wanted to stop.
The Brooklyn-born man and his best friend — visiting Texas for the first time from Maple Shade, N.J. — were minutes from their hotel along U.S. 290 but decided instead to join hundreds of auto aficionados at a car meet, his aunt, Sharon Herring, said.
DeCareick Kennedy, 16, and his younger brother, Faybian Hoisington, 14, also saw the action Sunday night during a visit to their grandmother’s house nearby and wanted to check out the cars, their mother said.
The Humble teens stopped to talked to Glover when an out-ofcontrol car — struck on the feeder road by a speeding Chevrolet Camaro — careened their way. The car missed Glover’s friend but hit him and the teens.
Video circulating on social media shows a yellow Chevrolet Camaro speeding down the feeder road and clipping the side of a black Chevrolet Malibu, which then crashed with the crowd.
Herring’s phone rang after the crash. On the other end was Glover’s friend with news of the crash.
“I passed out in my son’s arms,” said Herring, who worked with 35-year-old Glover at the staterun Ann Klein Forensic Center in Trenton. “He kept screaming, ‘Roger’s been hit. It looks bad.
His skull is cracked.’”
A stranger tried comforting Glover in the chaotic moments that followed, she said.
“She held his hand,” Herring continued. “He lived for about 10 minutes, and then he stopped breathing.”
Glover died at the crash site in the 14000 block of Northwest Freeway, near West Little York Road. The teens were airlifted to a hospital, where the elder died Sunday and the younger on Monday, relatives said.
The boys’ mother, Sherkeitha Kennedy, tearfully stood alongside her children Tuesday at the family’s church — St. Paul Baptist Church in Brookshire.
“My kids, they weren’t doing anything wrong. They were just out enjoying the car show,” she cried.
DeCareick attended Humble High School, while Faybian went to Humble Middle School, she said.
“My sons aren’t going to come back to me here on Earth,” Kennedy continued.
The 22-year-old Camaro driver, Andrew Mock, whose dangerous stunt authorities said led to the collision, has been charged with two counts of manslaughter and aggravated assault. Mock, of Magnolia, remained jailed Tuesday on a combined $80,000
bond from the three charges.
Should he bond out, prosecutors have asked that Mock be forced to surrender his driver’s license and not be allowed to drive without the permission of the court, according to court records.
Sean Teare, head of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office Vehicular Crimes Division, said the car meet ended around 9 p.m. and quickly devolved into a street takeover with drivers taking
to the feeder road to show off their speed.
Herring suspects Glover and his friend, slated to return Monday morning to New Jersey, were unaware of the event’s dangers.
She told Glover’s distraught friend that he “didn’t know there was going to be stupid nonsense there.”
“When I saw what that young man did, I thought it was a madman going into the crowd,” she said.
She has spent that past day watching videos from the event — some of which she described as racing — and urged law enforcement to quickly bring events of this nature to an end. Kennedy echoed her plea and asked law enforcement to crack down on future street racing and takeover stunts.
“My sons, they deserve justice,” Kennedy said. “Stop it. It has to be stopped. Just like it happened to my family — it can happen to anybody else.”
A person who identified himself as the event’s organizer declined to comment further but earlier issued a statement that said he would no longer host or be part of such events.
“This is not who we are or what we represent and it’s honestly hurting my heart to know lives were lost,” he said in an Instagram post.
A GoFundMe page has since been made to raise funds for Glover’s funeral expenses, including returning his body to New Jersey.
“Roger was a person who was loved by everyone,” Herring said. “They killed an angel.”