Inset: Bobby Joe McCullah, Jr. (Harris County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The street where the defendant allegedly hit his girlfriend with a U-Haul truck in Humble, Texas (Google Maps).
A Texas man has been arrested after authorities say he fatally struck his girlfriend with a U-Haul truck.
Bobby Joe McCullah, Jr., 35, is charged with one count of murder in connection with the death of 35-year-old Amber Mauceli.
The alleged killing occurred Friday morning on Ravendale Road in Humble, a community in the northeastern Houston metropolitan area.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime, McCullah allegedly killed Mauceli by “striking” her with “a deadly weapon, namely, a motor vehicle.”
Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to the area near Old Humble Road and Homestead Road at approximately 5:15 a.m. after receiving reports that a woman had been hit by a U-Haul truck, authorities said.
Witnesses told investigators they heard McCullah and Mauceli arguing only minutes before the 911 call, according to the sheriff’s office press release.
“Mauceli [was found] lying unresponsive in the roadway with injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle,” the sheriff’s office said. “EMS responded and pronounced her deceased at the scene.”
McCullah was located and arrested later that same day.
Although the criminal complaint provides few details, a court order sending the bond decision to the district court offers additional information about the allegations, according to law enforcement.
The judge wrote:
Officer arrived on scene and observed [the victim] lying on the ground in the middle of the roadway suffering from being run over by a vehicle and sustaining multiple abrasions consistent with road rash. [The victim] was pronounced deceased on scene. [Witnesses] stated that they observed [the victim] being struck by a U-Haul truck and [the truck] flee the scene. Officer spoke to friends of [the victim] and [defendant], and she stated that they owned a Dodge Charger and a U-Haul truck, which no one other than the [defendant] and [the victim] drove. Surveillance shows that at 4:54 am [defendant] and [the victim] were arguing and that at 5:11 am [the victim] was struck by the U-Haul and run over.
The U-Haul allegedly drove away after the incident.
Later, a group of students reportedly told a sheriff’s deputy that the “U-Haul struck [the victim].” The deputy then located the truck and asked McCullah whether he had hit anyone. He allegedly replied that he had not, according to the court order.
The sheriff’s office is investigating the case as an intimate partner homicide.
McCullah remains held in the Harris County Jail while awaiting a bond determination.
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