Inset: Bobby Joe McCullah, Jr. (Harris County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The Humble, Texas, street where the defendant allegedly struck his girlfriend with a U-Haul truck (Google Maps).
A Texas man has been jailed after allegedly killing his girlfriend with a U-Haul truck, authorities said.
Bobby Joe McCullah, Jr., 35, is charged with one count of murder in connection with the death of 35-year-old Amber Mauceli.
The incident unfolded Friday morning on Ravendale Road in Humble, a community in the northeastern Houston metropolitan area.
According to a brief 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 dispatched at approximately 5:15 a.m. to the area near Old Humble Road and Homestead Road after receiving reports that a woman had been hit by a U-Haul truck, authorities said.
Witnesses told investigators they heard McCullah and Mauceli engaged in a verbal argument only minutes before the 911 call, the sheriff’s office said in a 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 found and arrested later that same day.
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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:
An officer arrived at the scene and found [the victim] lying in the middle of the roadway after apparently being run over by a vehicle. She had multiple abrasions consistent with road rash and was pronounced dead at the scene. [Witnesses] said they saw [the victim] struck by a U-Haul truck before [the truck] fled. An officer spoke with friends of [the victim] and [defendant], and one friend said they owned a Dodge Charger and a U-Haul truck, neither of which was driven by anyone other than [the defendant] and [the victim]. Surveillance footage showed [the defendant] and [the victim] arguing at 4:54 a.m. and [the victim] being struck and run over by the U-Haul at 5:11 a.m.
The U-Haul allegedly fled the area after the collision.
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. According to the order, he said no.
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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