DeMorris Vaughn Grant | 1620 Enclave Parkway | August 27, 2007

[Chris]

At 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 27, 2007, DeMorris Grant answered the door at his second-floor apartment at 1620 Enclave Parkway, and was shot in the chest by an unknown suspect. DeMorris stumbled backwards into the apartment, and then ran through the living room window and jumped off the second-floor balcony.

DeMorris ran across the parking lot seeking help from neighbors. He was transported to Memorial Southwest Hospital, where he was pronounced dead from his wound.

Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and charging of any suspect in this case. Anyone with information on the case is urged to call 713-222-TIPS (8477). All callers remain anonymous.

[antiM]

video here:

http://www.click2houston.com/video/16381182/index.html

[Chris]

Wow that is very sad. I hope that poor mother gets the justice she wants soon.

[4DeMorris]

For some unknown reason for the pass three days my heart has been urging me to go on line and just see if there's a site that contained all the August 27, 2007 Unsolved Homicides. Just typing in that information I was directed to this web site. I never knew it existed, but I should have known that if you can think it, it's probably there.

Thank you for what you're doing, I'm DeMorris' Mother, and at a time when my son is missed the most (during Birthdays, Holidays, and Anniversaries), it's really nice to know that his death is not being forgotten. Every time someone makes a post to this site, in reference to him, he is being Remembered. It also renews the Hope that the person that killed him, will one day be brought to justice. Yes, my heart is still in a place of darkness, but listening to the voice inside of me, and finding this site, has shed a glimmer of light on my grieving and troubled Heart.

If I may go so far as to say: if there is anyone out there, who knows anything about what happened to DeMorris, Please, Please, step forward and share with the proper authorities what you may know, Crime Stoppers will take your information, you can remain anonymous, and possibly receive a reward once the information has been verified. You may possess the missing piece of the puzzle for a mother and a family, to finally move out of the darkness and into the light. Please! We really need your help.

Thank you,
DeMorris' Mom

[Chris]

Hello DeMorris, I am very sorry for your lose. It was very heartbreaking watching that video.

That is what this site is all about, hoping that folks do not forget these case, that someone out there can solve it, and families of these loved ones are still waiting for justice.

It is my hope that someone will pick up the phone and call crime stoppers and get this case solved.

I know it takes a bit of courage for people to call crime stoppers, and many are probably worried they'll be found out. But anyone can call and always remain anonymous, never ever giving there identity. I pray that one person finds that courage to do so.

Bless you DeMorris' Mom.

Chris

[4DeMorris]

Hello Chris,

Thanks for your compassion, it is my belief that one day soon someone will have the courage enough to speak out on what they saw. I'd like to stress that sometimes we come in on the tail end of a situation and not really know or understand what it is we just walked in on. If there is anyone that saw anything on that fateful day of August 27 2007, at the Chelsea Court Apts. now known as the Abbey, but don't know exactly what is was you saw, call it in to Crime Stoppers or to the Houston Homicide Police Dept. and allow them to sort it out. I could be the one piece of evidence that can turn this case from Unsolved to Solved.

I was on the phone with DeMorris that day, and I heard his doorbell ring, at that point he told me someone was at the door and that he would call me back later, I never got that call back. So, it's especially hard because I blame myself for not insisting to stay on the phone until he returned. Maybe I could have heard a name or what was going on and called the police immediately. I don't know and now I never will, which is why I'd like to enlist the help of anyone reading this message, to help if you can.

You can be a Silent Hero by calling Crime Stoppers anonymously and reporting what you saw or what you think you saw, by doing so you can bring resolution to a family that has been frozen in time. There's no way we can move forward into the future, until we can put to rest the past, and there's no way to do that until we know what happened to DeMorris on that day.

DeMorris' Mom

[4DeMorris]

Good Morning Chris,
It has been a while since I last visited your site, I want to thank you for still being there. Let me begin by saying that there is still no resolution to my Son's Homicide nor my Grief. Tomorrow will mark his 4 years Anniversary and I have to admit that every since this month rolled in, I have felt like a different person. It's usually around this time that I tend to relive that fateful day on August 27, 2007.

I can't tell you that I feel as devastated as I did on that day, so much time has marched on, and it did so with or without my approval. I can say that what I feel now is so much different than what I felt then. Because we get older and life affects us in so many different ways, I've learned to accept what has happened and lean a lot more on what God has allowed for my Life and Trust with all my heart ans soul that He will turn my heartache and pain around. It will never replace the Love in my heart for DeMorris but I believe that He has given me a 'Different' kind of Love for him, one that no longer hurt as much because of his loss.

There's still no person of interest, no suspect, and certainly no arrest. Where I once called the Homicide Detectives at least twice a week, I now call maybe twice a month, because to consistently hear the words 'no news' made my heart hurt and my grief seemed to know no end. DeMorris would have celebrated his 39th Birthday on July 30th, and it's been a lot to go through, but God continues to amaze me by bringing me through and placing my feet on the other side, stronger than I was when I 'entered'. Yes, I keep going through, I have to, it's part of the healing process, but He keep bringing me out, over and over again.

In the beginning, I felt nothing but hate in my Heart for the person or persons that caused so much total devastation in just one violent act of hate. It was almost as though with the swift wave of a hand, in the blink of an eye, they wiped out an entire family, but then I realized that if I were to go on that way, those person/persons win by taking out an entire family instead of just one family member, I couldn't allow that to happen. I Prayed, I Fasted, I deepened my Faith and Trust in God, and I then decided to step out of His Way and let Him be the Only True God He is. Now I can honestly say I don't hate those that took my Son's Life, now I can honestly say I pity them and I Pray for their Mortal Soul because in the end, when all is said and done, at the end of the day, it's not Me that they will have to answer to or ask forgiveness, it's GOD. Now that's better than anything I could ever hope or Pray for, that they face God and hear Him hand down their Justice. Am I still bitter? Of course I am, but the hate I harbored in my Heart was consuming me and it did NOTHING to hasten or change the circumstances, least of all bring my Son back to me.

Through it all, I realized I could have literally lost my mind a thousand or more times, the thought of it all was far too much to bare or even comprehend. For the life of me I just couldn't make sense of why this happened, what lesson is there to learn for a Mother to lose her child, especially the first child she brought into this world, a child she knew and bonded with before even giving him birth? Then one day I asked God: where were You when they walked up those stairs, knocked on my Son's door, and shot him? Taking his life with one bullet to the chest? Where were You? I didn't hear the answer right away, I think it was a matter of stop placing the blame on God and instead thanking Him for the time I did have with DeMorris. When I stopped blaming God, and it took over 2 years to do so, I heard the answer, because I asked the question again with a more Humble Heart: Lord where were You when they took my Son's Life? You know what His answer was? The same Place I was when they took My Son's Life, right here waiting with opened Arms to welcome Him in. Chris when I got that answer it shook my Spirit like an Earthquake and all I could do was drop to my knees and thank God for Keeping me through it all even when I showed little or no Faith in His Love for me or for DeMorris.

The loss of DeMorris has been harder than anything I think I'll ever be put through, but I believe now that his death strengthened my Faith in God and I now know that there is a Place above and beyond where we are right now, a Place we should all long to end up one day, but only a 'Select' few will make it, DeMorris did, and I believe that, just as sure as I believe that I have to inhale and exhale to continue to live.

God's Grace got me this far, His Mercy will Keep me cradled Safely in His Arms, and His Love will Protect my Sanity, whereas, my Faith in Him will take me exactly where it is that He has planned for me and my Life.

Again, thank you for what you have done here and thank you for giving others like myself a place to express our hearts and not be dismissed as 'ranting'. Thank you for providing a place to express 'Heartfelt Emotions' in times of Grief. 

DeMorris' Mom

[Chris]

Thanks for the message!


You are truly a brave woman with so much faith I must admit I am in awe.


I've been fortunate to have never experienced any close to what you have too, and I doubt I would be anywhere nearly as strong as you are. So forgiving and such an firm believe in God's plan, it is such a powerful thing.


Sometimes I wonder why things like this happen, and I am sure I will never know, but you do prove that all things provide us with a chance to test and grow our faith.


You are a remarkable woman and I hope the folks responsible for this know how you feel.


Walk in victory DeMorris' Mom!

[4DeMorris]

Hi Chris,
It's only so often I'm able to come here on line to check for any new replies, it's still hard to understand why people continue NOT to provide information so critical to so many people. When DeMorris was killed, not only his life was taken, but also every member of his family's life. There are still so many of them that struggle to understand, struggle to comprehend, and struggle to have a somewhat normal life that's void without him. As for me, well, I've given up on the thought of ever having a normal life again, what's normal for me now is the everyday, round-the-clock emptiness I feel inside of me. It's a feeling that no matter who the person may be, they will never find the words in the human language that describes or expresses exactly what it feels like to lose a child.

I'll even go a little bit further and expand on that, what words could explain or describe what a mother feels when she loses a child to such a violent act? If you were to ask me, if I could cope a little better had he died prematurely, at a young age of natural causes, I still probably wouldn't know how to express those feelings either, but I do know that the devastation that's on my heart as things stand now, could not possibly be as earth shattering. And again, let me just say this, when I speak of a Mother losing her child, it is not my intention to take anything from a Father, I'm only saying that when a woman carries a child in her belly for (9) months, the bond is formed before that child is even brought into the world. The very instant that woman learns she's carrying a life within her, her entire world and everything it represents to her, changes. When she makes the decision to bring a life into the world, her life is no longer her own, she begin to live for that child she's carrying and it's that way until the day she dies (in my case it was until the day DeMorris died), no parent should outlive their children. There are some Fathers that love their children with all their hearts, but for the most part, not all, that love didn't begin to grow until that child was tangible, was held, that dad actually see this child now and can 'relate'. Again not taking anything from a Father and his love for his child, but with the Mother that bond is formed at the moment of conception.

No, life for me will never be the same, but I continue to move forward with the Prayer of Resolution forever on my tongue. I believe God will bring the right Justice to this tragedy, God NEVER leaves ANYTHING undone, and when HE deems me strong enough to handle the truth, no matter what it may be, He will give me the answer to my Daily Prayers.

Thank you for keeping this site alive, whenever I get to feeling like I'm drowning and there's no one to save my Life, I come here to 'talk' about it. Thank you for listening and thank you for your Prayer for Strength over my Life.

DeMorris' Mom

[Chris]

Thanks for the message.

I cannot begin to understand that feeling. It is very heartbreaking to hear how you feel and the mother\child relationship and how much it affects you. I often wonder myself how it would feel like being a loved one of a victim of murder and the case is still unsolved.

Further, I often wonder how a person feels holding back information that could solved the case. Why do they do that? Why can't they see how much of a burden they'd bring not only for themselves, but the families of the victims.

Your faith is admirable, and I hope your day comes soon!!