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Man apparently shoots wife, kills self
By UA MARTIN
Staff writer
BAYTOWN—A neighbor stands out-
side of the mobile home at 2605 Massey
Tompkins Road. He says he is a friend of
the 52-year-old Baytown man, who
allegedly shot his 42-year-old wife
before shooting himself.
The man, who asked not to be identi-
fied, said he hadn’t seen his longtime
friend since last Tuesday, which was
unusual. Normally they spent Christmas
Day together, but not this year. He hinted
at the man being out of work and family
problems.
Finally, he decided to visit after work
on Wednesday. He knocked on the door
just after 5 p.m.
“I came around because I saw the tele-
vision on. Roy is always home when that
television is on. I knocked and knocked,”
he said. “I turned the door knob. I was
going to holler ‘Hey, Roy’ when I opened
the door, but there they were on the floor.
I picked up the phone and dialed 911.”
Baytown Det. J.R. Miller said that it
appeared that the woman was shot with a
12-gauge shotgun before her husband
turned the gun on himself.
“The approximate time of the shoot-
ings was Sunday at 1 p.m.” Miller said.
“We have been trying to reach the fami-
lies since we got here this afternoon.”
Senior Investigator John Bright is
investigating the case. Autopsies will be
performed to determine cause of death.
Names of the victims will be released
after the family is notified.
Contact Lia Martin by e-mail at
lia.martin@baytownsun.com or phone
(281) 425-8022.
Photo by Lia Martin
Medical examiners
remove a body
Wednesday night from a
mobile home at 2605
Massey Tompkins
Road. Investigators
believe a man shot his
wife and before turning
the shotgun on himself.
By MATTHEW COOK
Staff writer
ANAHUAC — Chambers County
commissioners voted Wednesday to
approve regulations for sexually ori-
ented businesses.
“1 am really proud to get this done,”
said Chambers County Judge Jimmy
Sylvia. “We’ll be in good shape final-
ly getting them in place.”
Chambers County cannot legally
prohibit sexually oriented businesses
from being developed within its
boundaries. However, the county can
develop a set of regulations that create
an unfavorable environment for the
development of such a business.
According to the regulations, which
are modeled after those in place by
Galveston County, sexually oriented
businesses must apply for an annual
permit at a cost of $ 1,000.
Also as part of the permitting
process, the public must be notified
that a business has applied for a per-
mit. The public is allowed to request a
hearing on health and safety matters
related to the sexually oriented busi-
ness.
Sexually oriented businesses may
not be located within 1,500 feet of a
child care facility, church, home, hos-
pital, school, public building, park,
another sexually oriented business or
penal institution.
Some other regulations specified by
the ordinance include a minimum dis-
tance of three feet between4 entertain-
ers and patrons and limit exterior
advertising to one flat wall sign
attached to the front of the main build-
ing.
The regulations apply only to unin-
corporated areas of the county and do
not include towns such as Anahuac or
Mont Belvieu. There are also provi-
sions that allow existing businesses to
be grandfathered, but that shouldn’t be
a problem in Chambers County,
Sylvia said.
See CHAMBERS on Page 2A
Maritime museum wants
to make Anahuac its home
Mini-bikes, big fun
Chambers County
moves to regulate
sex-related business
Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman
Deanna Hildebrand, 9, and Joshua Hildebrand, 8, try out their new mini-bikes they got for Christmas on Wednesday.
They are the children of Cory and Karen Hildebrand of Baytown.
By MATTHEW COOK
Staff writer •
ANAHUAC — The Chambers
County seat could soon be home to a
new tourist attraction in the form of a
maritime museum dedicated to the
Trinity Bay area.
The Scow Schooner Project would
like to make Anahuac its permanent
home, director Howard R. Gmelch
told the Chambers County
Commissioners Court during
Wednesday’s meeting.
The Scow Schooner Project is an
educational program with the goal of
developing a maritime museum dedi-
cated to Galveston and Trinity Bay, an
estuary education center and a recre-
ational boat building school.
Gmelch said the organization was
interested in developing all three pro-
jects in on Trinity Bay in Anahuac,
next to Fort Anahuac Park.
Gmelch said Chambers County
played an important role in the history
of marine development on Galveston
Bay and Trinity Bay., Fort Anahuac
monitored much of the trade in the
region after it was founded in the
1830s.
“Much of our research ... keeps
pointing us to Chambers County,”
Gmelch said. “Texas was settled from
the coast inland and this was one of
the first routes inland.”
See MUSEUM on Page 2A
Goodfellows
donations
The St. John Family
Living Trust, $25
Dr. and Mrs. Richard
Thomson and family in
memory of John Edwin
Thomson, $200
Betty Wilder in loving
memory of my husband
Leonard Wilder, $50
* Total to date: $24,344
2001 goal: $30,000
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Holidays maik rise in women’s shelter residents
By JIM UDDELL
Staff writer
BAYTOWN — A shelter for abused
women has been flooded with residents dur-
ing the holiday season.
“It’s like this every year,” said Karen
Freeman, community relations director for
the Bay Area Women’s Center. “It’s the
stress, the.added pressure. There’s a lot more
violence and many women choose to leave
at this time.”
Freeman said that the center can normally
handle up to 26 adults and children each
night but by using air mattresses, the staff
"It’s like this every
year."
Karen Freeman
Bay Area Women’s Center
can expand to about 30 temporarily.
“And it’s not just women. We get some
men with their children from time to time.
But the dynamics of our society means that
we usually work with women who have left
home,” Freeman said.
This year, according to Freeman, not only
is the Baytown center filled to capacity but
all of the other nearby centers are, as well.
She speaks of the Houston Women’s Center,
The Bridge in Pasadena and Bay Area
Himing Point in Clear Lake.
“We keep in contact so we can share beds if
one can’t handle anymore,” she said. “Still, we
have a very large service area and Baytown’s
support is very important for us. We have a
policy of not turning away anyone.”
Freeman cited two recent examples! One
was a call for turkeys for Thanksgiving din-
ner at the center that bought combined
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THURSDAY
December 27, 2001
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