A wife in Houston, Texas, received a notification from the alarm system in her home about a break-in, before finding out that her husband had been shot dead on Sept. 30.
The police said that at about 10:30 a.m. Bradley’s wife received a notification on her phone of the intruder.
“The notification contained a short video showing an unknown black male, wearing a black and red hoodie, with red stripes on the sleeves and a white stripe on the chest, walking up their driveway,” said the police.
She tried to contact her husband on the phone but she wasn’t able to and became concerned. She finished work and arrived home at about 1:30 p.m. to find Bradley bleeding.
“She discovered Deodrick unresponsive and bleeding inside the residence. She called 911 and asked two neighbors to assist with CPR,” said the police.
Anyone with information can contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Unit at 713-274-9100.
Murders Drop Most Since 1990s
Not since 1999 has the United States seen the number of murders drop so precipitously as in 2018, when 1,080 fewer people died of homicide or non-negligent manslaughter than the year before, according to national crime statistics released by the FBI on Sept. 30.The murder rate dropped to 5 per 100,000 residents, a decline of 6.8 percent from 2017.
Overall, the violent crime rate dropped by 3.9 percent, most notably the robbery rate, which slid by 12.6 percent in 2018. The property crime rate, meanwhile, decreased by 6.9 percent. The burglary rate, in particular, declined by 12.5 percent.
Of the seven crimes captured in the data—homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, and car theft—only rape was up in 2018, by 2.1 percent.
The decline in crimes accelerated from 2017, when the violent crime rate dropped by about 1 percent and the rate of property crime fell by 3.6 percent.
