The feds charged 18-year-old Darius Hall with carjacking. He’s accused of killing Marietta Allison in Houston’s Heights neighborhood during a robbery.<\/p>\n
HOUSTON \u2014 Federal prosecutors announced that they have leveled serious carjacking and firearms charges against 18-year-old Darius Dewayne Hall<\/a> in a fatal Heights shooting that claimed the life of a beloved Austin woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hall, who is in custody on state capital murder counts, allegedly shot Marietta Allison during a robbery attempt on March 6<\/a>, stole her 2019 Toyota Highlander, changed clothes to dodge identification, and led police on a vehicle and foot chase before his arrest.<\/p>\n The nightmare unfolded after Allison, known to friends as a beacon of selfless love, dropped her best friend, Cassie Daniel, at a Heights apartment complex near West 20th Street and Lawrence Street. She’d spent the day supporting Daniel’s first chemotherapy session at MD Anderson Cancer Center for stage four ovarian cancer, even spoon-feeding her fruit during treatment and putting her own work on hold to care for her.<\/p>\n RELATED: 18-year-old charged after deadly shooting leads to chase and hours-long standoff in NW Houston<\/a><\/p>\n Witnesses heard a scream and a gunshot as Allison walked back from parking the Highlander around the corner. Hall allegedly rifled through her purse, shot her in the neck, and fled in the SUV. She arrived at Memorial Hermann Hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after midnight. Police spotted the stolen vehicle, pursued it to a crash, and chased Hall on foot near Southwest Freeway and Buffalo Speedway, recovering his discarded clothes from the scene.<\/p>\n Friends paint Allison as a profound force of kindness who welcomed Daniel into her Austin home, lived each day fully, and touched countless lives regardless of background.<\/p>\n