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<\/p>\nA Baltimore mother is speaking out after her daughter was shot and killed while on a birthday trip to Texas with her boyfriend.<\/p>\n
Syreeta Chase said her daughter, 27-year-old India Thomas, traveled to Houston in February with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Darrell Hall. The couple had planned to continue to Miami to celebrate Thomas’ birthday.<\/p>\n
“She was a spoiled, cute little curly-haired girl with big eyes, and she had a sassy personality,” Chase said. “You know how girls go out with their girlfriends? That’s how I hung out with my daughter.”<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 Syreeta Chase said her daughter, 27-year-old India Thomas, traveled to Houston in February with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Darrell Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Photo by Syreeta Chase<\/p>\n
A mother’s intuition<\/p>\n
Chase said she had a bad feeling before the trip and urged her daughter not to go.<\/p>\n
“My intuition told me that my daughter should not be hanging out in Texas,” she said. “Her boyfriend frequented Texas, and for some reason, I just told my daughter not to go with him.”<\/p>\n
According to Chase, she was in contact with her daughter throughout the day on Friday, Feb. 27, but stopped hearing from her around 11 p.m.<\/p>\n
“I just knew in my heart that something was wrong,” Chase said.<\/p>\n
“I instantly just lost it”<\/p>\n
Houston police said Thomas and Hall were found dead the next day on Radio Road near the airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators said Hall’s body was located in the roadway, while Thomas was found in a nearby ditch. Both had multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
Chase said she learned of her daughter’s death through a phone call involving Hall’s mother and investigators.<\/p>\n
“Darrell’s mother Amber called me and homicide was on the phone and I instantly just lost it,” she said.<\/p>\n
Thomas leaves behind two sons, including one she shared with Hall.<\/p>\n
Houston police have not announced any suspects. Chase believes the couple may have been set up by someone they knew.<\/p>\n
“The people who did it, they have to be evil,” Chase said.<\/p>\n
Despite her grief, Chase said she is determined to see justice for her daughter.<\/p>\n
“My daughter is going to be the reason why you don’t get a chance to ever do this to another person,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Baltimore mother is speaking out after her daughter was shot and killed while on a birthday trip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-229210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}