CHANNELVIEW, Texas (KTRK) Deputies said it was a case of mistaken identity when an 11-year-old boy was shot and killed as he slept inside his family s Channelview home in June 2019. Now more than a year and a half later, two men have been charged in the killing.
The shooting happened in the 15100 block of Brentwood Drive, where the family had recently moved into a new home. Investigators said the renters in the house before them had shown suspicious behaviors. Deputies believed those people were the likely intended targets of the early morning drive-by shooting that killed Kamren Jones.
Kamren, a student at Schochler Elementary School, died at the scene of the shooting. Several other children were in the room at the time, but they were not injured.
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Moore was the PAWS community development coordinator until her termination in September 2019. Thompson left the agency in February 2020 and Tracey Williams was hired as the new executive director four months later.
Williams has launched an ambitious program to change the way Okaloosa County s animal control agency and shelter is run. The University of Florida Maddie s Shelter Medicine Program is very excited and hopeful that the time is right for positive change within PAWS, a report filed in January by Shelter Medicine Program Manager Cameron Moore (no relation) said. Industry standards have evolved but practices at PAWS have not.
The lawsuit states Thompson misused and misapplied PAWS funds and made false statements in order to obtain or retain grant money. Manda Moore claims Thompson falsified the amounts of grant funds being spent for spaying and neutering.
FORT WALTON BEACH The Panhandle Animal Welfare Society no longer is going to serve as a convenient depository for unwanted pets.
As one of a host of changes being made to how Okaloosa County s animal shelter will function going forward, owners attempting to surrender a pet could get turned away. Now, instead of saying Yes, we ll take it, come on in, the policy is What can we do to help you keep the animal? said PAWS Executive Director Tracey Williams. We should be a last resort, a resource, not a boarding facility or dumping ground. . We have to stop allowing animals that have a place to live to be surrendered until we can make room for them.