The Astros inched closer to getting a new stadium in downtown Houston 30 years ago this month.
On Sept. 14, team owner Drayton McLane Jr. signed a deal with local leaders committing the franchise to Houston’s city center. A few more hurdles would need to be cleared before construction crews could start overturning dirt at Union Station, but the deal signified a big step toward keeping the Astros in Houston.
Meanwhile, the Chronicle polled 417 registered voters in Harris County for their take on plans for a new stadium. Here’s what voters had to say:
Switching gears, on Sept. 30, 1996, the Harris County Sheriff’s Department noted it had been five years since the abduction and killing of deputy Roxyann Allee.
On that day in 1991, Allee, a corporal at the county jail, was abducted from the Greenspoint Mall parking lot. She was off duty at the time and was wearing civilian clothes when she went to the mall that evening to shop. As she was leaving, witnesses said they saw two men force her at gunpoint into her van and drive off. Her charred vehicle was found a little while later. A deputy found her body, with numerous gunshot wounds, in a nearby field.