By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-28 13:31:47 | Updated at 2024-11-28 15:54:50
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Police screamed in panic and desperately tried to revive a mother they ran over in the street as her distraught children watched, bodycam and dashcam footage shows.
Desire Pool, 41, was mowed down at full speed by Houston policewoman Shelby Kennedy at 9.52pm on September 19 and died on the road despite CPR efforts.
The Houston Police Department released video from five differnet angles just hours before Thanksgiving showing Pool being hit, and the immediate aftermath.
Pool and her two daughters, aged 10 and 18, and their sibling had just got off a bus and were crossing the street, without a crosswalk, and she dropped her bus pass.
As she bent down to pick it up, Kennedy's police car, that was carrying a suspect to lockup, plowed into her at full speed as her children got out of the way.
'Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Oh, my... God! You didn't see them?' Kennedy's partner Officer Joshua Rosales shouted. 'No!' she replied.
Desire Pool, 41, was mowed down at full speed by Houston policewoman Shelby Kennedy at 9.52pm on September 19 and died on the road despite CPR efforts
The Houston Police Department released video from five differnet angles just hours before Thanksgiving showing Pool being hit, and the immediate aftermath
This is the instant before Pool was hit, as her children dived out of the way
The pair got out of the car while radioing for help, and began CPR on Pool as her children watched, screaming and crying hysterically.
'My mom! Y'all killed my mom!' one shouted at them.
Another got down and grabbed her hand, pleading 'Mama, do not die on me... Come on, pray, pray.'
As Rosales adminstered CPR, he told his partner to 'breathe'.
Pool was officially pronounced dead nce she got to hospital.
Her uncle Lee Gordon said Kennedy needed to be 'held accountable', and a public apology from HPD wouldn't be enough.
'Her two children saw their mother get mowed down in the street. They're having nightmares. We're trying our best to get them mental health care so we can get them back to normal,' he told ABC.
Pool's family said they weren't warned about when the footage was going to be made public on the department's YouTube channel.
Officer Joshua Rosales administers CPR as Pool's children watch, hysterically screaming and crying
'My mom! Y'all killed my mom!' one shouted at them
Police lean over Pool and give her CPR in a desperate effort to save her life
One of Pool's children got down and grabbed her hand, pleading 'Mama, do not die on me... Come on, pray, pray,'
"I don't know what she (Kennedy) was doing. She could've been looking at the little computer that she has right there, or whatever she had, or whatever she had so that her vision was obstructed to where she had to had to look somewhere else,' Pool's 18-year-old son Jalen Gary said.
The deadly crash was also caught on camera by a surveillance at a nearby business, showing the three kids standing on the street as their mom kneels down.
As the black and white cop car barrels past the bus stop and towards then, the kids are able to scramble out of the road, but not their mom.
Witnesses described seeing the mom appear to drop her bus card, and go back into the road to get it when she was hit by the car.
'We got a loud crowd. They were very upset about what had just occurred and they kinda just all dispersed,' Houston Police Commander Luis Menendez-Sierra said.
HPD insisted at the time that the officers did nothing wrong.
'The patrol vehicle struck a pedestrian in the roadway, not in a crosswalk,' the Houston Police Department said in a statement.
Just feet from the bus stop, the mother and her kids were in the road, as the cop car barreled towards them, according to new footage of the crash
Video shows cop cruiser approaching the group of people in the street
Police says the woman may have dropped her bus card and gone back into the street to pick it up when she was hit
Two officers riding in a marked patrol car were taking a suspect to the local jail when the car collided with the woman.
'Officers immediately stopped and rendered assistance to the injured female.'
The woman was taken to a local hospital where she died.
None of her children were injured.
'A preliminary investigation indicates that speed is not believed to be a factor in the crash and that the pedestrian failed to yield right of way to a vehicle,' HPD said.
