Missouri City Police are questioning a suspect in the stabbing murder of a pregnant 27-year-old at her Missouri City home early Sunday morning. The victim was a clinic aide at Fort Bend Independent School District’s Jones Elementary School and a 2001 graduate of Elkins High School.
Leiah Jackson was attacked at her duplex in the 3300 block if Palm Desert Lane. She was stabbed multiple times, but made it out of her garage and to the unit next door where her mother lived. She banged on the front door, and told her mother that the man who stabbed her was a relative of her unborn child’s father.
Jackson was taken by helicopter to a hospital where she and the baby died.
The father if her child was found dead of gunshot wounds hours after Jackson was attacked. His apartment complex in the 6300 block of West Airport caught fire around 4 a.m. this morning, with at least eight units completely destroyed. Investigators have not linked the fire to the murder.
Missouri City police will not confirm that the two murders are related, but said it is believed they are. Detectives are currently waiting for lab results from evidence collected at both scenes.
The Houston Police Department has a “person of interest” in custody, but police are not releasing his identity. Investigators with the Missouri City Police Department have questioned the suspect.
Counselors will be at Jones Elementary School to help students and staff members cope with Jackson’s death. Letters to parents will go home with students today.
“The entire Fort Bend ISD family is deeply saddened by the tragic death of Leiah Jackson, a clinic aide at Jones Elementary School,” read a statement from the district. “Ms. Jackson has worked at the campus for three years, and for Fort Bend ISD for a total of six years, and was loved by both students and staff members…The district extends it thoughts and prayers to Ms. Jackson’s family and friends.
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