66-year-old woman assaulted outside HEB

Updated: Sunday, 02 Jan 2011, 8:13 PM CST
Published : Sunday, 02 Jan 2011, 7:55 PM CST

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police arrested a man suspected of attacking and robbing an elderly woman outside a grocery store.

Officers found 26-year-old Elmer Earl, Jr., Saturday evening, just a few blocks away from the HEB at Hancock Center in central Austin, they say he tried to escape the scene after the spotted him walking off the nearby Hancock golf course.

Police were investigating the area after a 66-year-old woman reported a man who approached her in the store's parking lot, asked for directions, then grabbed her purse, knocked her down, and ran away.

She gave them a description and after about 20 minutes, a detective spotted Elmer Earl.

When Earl saw the detective he tried to run away but police caught up with him. They took him back to the scene where the victim identified him as the man who attacked her. Police say Earl also had several of the victim's credit cards and business cards on him when they caught him.

Police charged Elmer Earl with Aggravated Robbery by Assault, a first-degree felony.

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Woman burned severely during house fire

Updated: Thursday, 25 Nov 2010, 10:20 PM CST
Published : Thursday, 25 Nov 2010, 8:53 PM CST

AUSTIN (KXAN) - A Thanksgiving evening fire in central Austin sent two women to the hospital.

Austin Firefighters responded to a fire at a home at 4007 Avenue B at approximately 5:30 p.m.

The first firefighters on scene saw flames shooting from a second story bedroom.? Fire could still be seen several minutes later when a KXAN photojournalist arrived at the home.?

Firefighters rescued a 90-year-old woman from inside the home.? AFD says that two other people escaped from the house.

One person who escaped was a 62-year-old woman who suffered severe burns to her face and throat.? EMS transported her to the hospital.? Janelle Boone, a spokesperson for the Austin-Travis County EMS said that the woman is listed in critical condition.

The 90-year-old woman was transported to the hospital for evaluation. Her status is unknown.

The other individual who escaped is a man who refused treatment on the scene.

AFD Lieutenant Palmer Buck said the home was an older structure that had been renovated.? Buck said that the flames spread into hidden spaces, and that made it harder for firefighters to put the fire out.

Investigators say the fire started because combustible materials were placed too close to a wood stove.

Buck said the fire underscores the importance of having a working smoke detector in your home.

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Woman run over by truck in bed recovers

Updated: Sunday, 31 Oct 2010, 11:55 PM CDT
Published : Sunday, 31 Oct 2010, 4:24 PM CDT

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Felicita Fisher, 81, who was run over in her own bed when a suspected drunk driver crashed into her house off FM 812 earlier this month , is now recovering at a South Austin rehabilitation facility.

"I'm feeling a whole lot better, better than I was," said Fisher while holding her 2-year-old chihuahua Sunshine in her lap.?

Fisher said she was sleeping with Sunshine when she heard what she thought was a plane crash.? It was actually a pick up truck crashing into her house.

Sunshine was also thrown from the bed and found on the front porch.

"The bed was shattered, completely shattered," Fisher explained.

Police arrested Gabino Lopez, 54, for intoxicated assault with a vehicle, causing serious bodily injury.

Fisher suffered a broken leg and hip and was taken to UMC Brackenridge where she immediately underwent surgery.

"I wasn't scared," Fisher said.

An usual sleeping habit likely saved Fisher's life.? At the time, she wasn't sleeping with her feet at the foot of the bed, but with her head at the foot.?

She believes something else saved her life.

"It was a premonition I had had that something bad was going to happen.? I didn't think it would happen that quick," Fisher said.

Fisher said she dreamed of her father who told her to make room in the bed for him.? She told KXAN that is when she repositioned herself.

Fisher's son David told KXAN his mother will spend the next 60 days at the rehab center.? He brings Sunshine to visit her once a day.

"I'm conquering each step, so, I feel that I am doing really good," Fisher said.? "I am progressing really rapidly so that is for my benefit."

David said his mother's home cannot be repaired and will be demolished.? When she is well, she will likely move in with him.

Fisher said she wishes she could be well enough to cook Thanksgiving dinner and be "useful" to her family.

Lopez is now out on $20,000 bond and is expected to make be in court for a hearing tomorrow.

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Woman possible kidnapping victim, HEB

Last updated: Friday, October 29, 2010 11 h 04 - CDT
Published: Friday 29 October 2010 9 h 57 - CDT

AUSTIN (KXAN) - police are investigating a possible kidnapping happened at about 7 p.m. Friday.

A woman was detained forefully in a vehicle to HEB, 2508 e. Riverside, heard cry for help, the two witnesses who reported to the police.

The vehicle was described as a newer model, dark Krymov Ford Taurus, very clean, as if he was just suspect lavé.Le is a man in his late twenties, heavy with buzz haircuts.

The victim is described as a white or Hispanic woman in her early 20s, thin build, shoulder length or long black hair in a ponytail.

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