Woman arrested, accused of racial tirade

to get into that at 6 o’clock reporting live from league city Robert Arnold KPRC channel two’s Robert thank you. >> Now to a story you’ll see only on to a doctor from New Orleans who was visiting Houston says she and her husband were victims of a racially-motivated public tie raid a doctor claims a woman raid a doctor claims a woman came with them carrying a hammer while saying go back to your country. An arrest has been made Channel 2 senior reporter Phil Archer is live in the Montrose area with the details now filled. >> This all begs the question what would you do if a complete stranger threatened you and your spouse with a hammer. Just because of the way you look well that New Orleans couple says that’s what happened to them over the weekend while they were vacationing here. It’s a troubling story about alleged racism in a town that prides itself on diversity. Our Carol Cortez and his wife Leah Franco earn a tease of Ecuador currently living in New Orleans where Lea is finishing her medical residency. In the course of doing that doctor Franco’s been treating covid patients day after day so to decompress the couple decided to spend the weekend in Houston over the holiday to unwind. >> In the afternoon they were looking for a restaurant when they noticed a woman. >> Following a car behind so we >> Following a car behind so we stopped a little bit on the side and she was still there just don’t be sent up behind us. >> After that she started showing a hammer to the or the bill the mirror. She was sitting just has a visa and Acosta has a thing. >> Yeah I was thinking whether they knew the couple called 911 and turn into a gas station at and turn into a gas station at Westheimer and South Shepherd. >> The woman followed them and that’s when she pulled beside us and started screaming at us and we are what do you want and she says stop falling and then she screamed I you Mexicans got get out of my acting country go back to your F ing country the woman got out of her car with a hammer and seem to be threatening them with it. >> Before the situation escalated further police arrived and took her into custody, police identified her as 60 year-old Constance Lynn bano she was arrested Sunday and remains in jail today. So far investigators haven’t been able to say what sparked the incident. But for doctor Franco and her husband, their first trip to Houston was first trip to Houston was surprising. >> And scary I think she needs fell. She needs treatment. >> That doesn’t justify the fact that she needs to follow the loss of her country. >> There’s Bono is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon that a second degree felony with a punishment range of up to 20 years in prison, the charge could be upgraded to a first-degree felony if prosecutors believe racism was the motive. The case

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Published: Tue May 26 2020