{"id":47454,"date":"2025-11-13T04:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/47454\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T04:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:09:12","slug":"balloon-release-held-for-father-of-7-week-old-killed-in-almeda-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/47454\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloon release held for father of 7-week-old killed in Almeda crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/C8A3A9BC033DD7FEF7CB2E78EE50AAAE.jpg\" alt=\"3 dead in Houston crash involving impaired driver\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; On November 2, Houston Police say a drunk driver ran a red light at the intersection of West Orem Drive and Almeda Road in Southwest Houston.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver, identified as 29-year-old Tony Jerome Oliver, has since been charged with &#8220;intoxication manslaughter \u2014 death of multiple people&#8221; after the accident. He remains hospitalized per HPD.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">One of the vehicles impacted by Oliver, was a white Buick that contained 23-year-old Ronald Cedric Harris III (AKA &#8220;Tre&#8221;), 24-year-old Davion Perry and a 21-year-old woman inside the car. The two men died at the scene, while the female was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Sunday, the family of 24-year-old Davion Perry held a balloon release, hoping to honor his memory.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">His wife, Chandra Chapron, was in attendance.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;(At) our age, 24 and 23, you don&#8217;t really see a lot of dads stepping up,&#8221; Chapron said. &#8220;He was there the whole nine months, every hour of labor, even working six days a week. There to hold my legs when I push. There to hold her, there to give her her first bottle feed, hear her first cries.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Perry&#8217;s mother, Trinice Randle, was also at the release.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;There\u2019s no comfort because my son will never walk through the door,&#8221; Randle said. &#8220;My son will never call me anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The two say they&#8217;re not sure how they&#8217;ll see justice truly be served, since no matter the result \u2014 it wouldn&#8217;t bring Perry back to life.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;He\u2019ll never see his daughter grow up, never hear her first words,&#8221; Chapron said. &#8220;Will never see her first day of school. And the only thing he really wanted was to just see her get to that issue where she&#8217;s walking, talking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The family has a GoFundMe posted seeking support. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-chandra-and-baby-denim-after-davions-tragic-death?attribution_id=sl:ae6d85c9-ac9e-4a73-8296-02f367d417f3&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1762712220&amp;utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&amp;utm_content=amp17_ta&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here to donate<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Family of victims, Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; On November 2, Houston Police say a drunk driver ran a red light at the intersection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-47454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454","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=47454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}