License Plate Cameras Scattered Across Houston Unravels a Deadly Execution in 5th Ward

License Plate Cameras Scattered Across Houston Unravels a Deadly Execution in 5th Ward

By Clarence Walker Jr.

When Houston Police Homicide Detectives faced a complex inner-city murder case in Houston's 5th Ward with almost no physical evidence, they turned to technology to crack the mystery. The crime involved a deadly triangle of young gang members caught in a brutal drive-by shooting.

By analyzing digital footprints—such as phone locations, license plate readers, surveillance cameras, social media activity, and communication patterns—the detectives began mapping connections between suspects. This digital trail helped reconstruct the sequence of events and identified key players involved in the incident.

The use of advanced technology transformed what seemed like an unsolvable case into a clear narrative, revealing not only who was involved but also how the conflict unfolded. This approach highlights how modern policing relies on data and digital evidence to solve crimes, especially in challenging environments where traditional clues are scarce.

Surveillance cameras, license plate readers, and cell phone tracking play a big role in solving crimes. These powerful crime-fighting tools provide a digital path for police investigators to follow suspects as they drive their cars, set timelines, and gather incriminating information through data analysis.

Cameras pick up on what suspects are doing and provide irrefutable evidence about their vehicles, while license plate readers (LPRs) track car movements and can spot a car that's been involved in a crime right away, and cell phone data time-stamp a person's location, who they talked to, and what all they said through text messaging.

All these tools work together to help police put together a crime's timeline, figure out the player or players who carried out the crime, and recover important evidence. License plate readers are commonly known as Flock Cameras.

In recent years, the city of Houston, Texas, has seen a significant increase in the use of advanced technology by law enforcement agencies to combat crime. One of the most impactful tools in their arsenal is the integration of surveillance cameras, license plate readers, and cell phone trackers. All three mechanisms solve murders and other serious criminal offenses.

Houston has activated a flood of surveillance cameras throughout the city. These cameras serve multiple purposes to assist police in obtaining critical leads or outright solve crimes. While Houstonians complained of privacy issues the Houston police were elated to have the technology.

A Houston Chronicle Reporter Interviewed Law Enforcement Officers Concerning the Controversial Technology

"The days of chasing criminals the old fashioned way is over, we're not on horses anymore," said Lt. Mike Santos, highlighting the use of the (LPR) technology as a benefit for law enforcement. "It's been tremendously helpful," said then-Acting Houston Police Chief Larry Satterwhite, noting the technology is effective in helping investigators close cases.

Technology played a key role in helping police identify the killers in a recent murder in 5th Ward.

Facts

In the shadowy corners of Houston's 5th Ward, where streetlights flickered uncertain promises, young and older men and women gathered outside the Kelly Court Village, located across from the neighborhood Green Store at 3301 Green Street.

On Saturday, June 7, 2025, between 1:50 A.M. and 2:00 A.M., the life of 31-year-old Quincy V. White was stolen in a hail of bullets. Cowardly assailants ambushed the young man on Green Street as he sat comfortably in the Lincoln SUV he was driving. Green Street runs east and west in front of the Kelly Court Village. The devoted father had been in the hood kicking it with old friends when a burst of gunfire shattered the predawn morning.

In a moment of heart-pounding fear, people on the hustle-and-flow corners heard the loud shots and began ducking, scrambling like rabbits towards safer ground. Sources told police when Quincy was shot, he exited the vehicle in a panic and ran into the Green Street Store, where he collapsed on the floor. Quincy, known as Bun-Bun by family members died from several gunshot wounds. After unloading heavy artillery into Quincy's vehicle the killers fled northbound on Grove Street towards the Market, Orange and Stonewall Streets.

Within seconds, whispers spread through Kelly Court as to the identity of the trigger pullers that fired the fatal shots. For decades, murder in the urban inner cities evolved over time into an endless trail of blood where young men wantonly killed each other over the least unnecessary provocation.

After the shooting, Harris County PCT#6 Deputy Constable B. Morris responded to a shooting in progress at 3301 Green Street, right off Gregg Street. A citizen led Deputy Morris into the Green Street store. Morris observed Quincy White's riddled body lying on the floor, bleeding profusely. Morris radioed for backup.

Thereafter, several Houston Police Department (HPD) patrol officers and Houston Fire Department paramedics descended upon the scene, followed by HPD homicide detectives Sgt. B.A. Roberts and Detective J.J. Wallschlager. Morris briefed the investigators about the unfolding events based on what a few citizens told him. Paramedics officially declared Quincy White dead.

Morris said a person recalled how the victim sat in his car when a driver in a dark-colored vehicle drove onto Green Street, then quickly turned off Green Street onto Grove Street, and that someone in the dark color vehicle fired several rounds into the victim's vehicle parked at the corner of Green Street@Grove Street.

Motive
The motive behind Quincy White's murder at Kelly Court Village--in the heart of the Fifth Ward---challenged the investigative skills of Houston Police homicide detectives. Both homicide officers suspected that someone witnessed the incident because people either socialized around the Kelly Court or the Green Street Store 24-7. However, they acknowledged that many times when street violence go down people remain silent rather than talk and be tagged as a snitch.

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Heart-Wrenching Telephone Call

Quincy's mother Lasonya White received the heart-wrenching call that her child had been gunned down in 5th Ward on Green Street. "When my son's girlfriend called and said Quincy had been shot and that he was dead--I wouldn't wish that pain, that horrible feeling on my worst enemy," Ms. White told Houston News Today.com. She shared her thoughts of what may have transpired. At the outset she insisted the streets weren't talking too much.

"I believe there is more to what happened. It was a conspiracy." Answering questions by Houston News Today reporter as to why Quincy was near the Kelly Court, Ms. White said she'd once lived there with her family. But had later moved to another place. "I know Quincy had been staying with his girlfriend in the Kelly Court."

The grieving mother further said she and her son Quincy spent the majority of their lives in the Hardy Street area located further north from Kelly Court, Lyons Avenue, Jensen Drive. and Hardy Street is popularly known as the other half of Northside.

"My son Quincy had not too long ago been released from the Texas Dept. of Correction." "My son loved his son. Everything he had, he would give it to his son," she lamented. Ms. White admitted her son had troubles in his life. He wasn't perfect and that he suffered with Bipolar disorder or ADHD."

Investigators soon discovered what could lead to a motive when Quincy's mother convinced a latino friend of Quincy to call officers and tell them what he knew. Investigators would subsequently discover the killers first stalked Quincy White as he mingled around at the Green Street Store and when he frequented the 5th Level Club at 3809 Market Street located a few blocks from the store.

"The guy told police that my son Quincy slapped a guy name Rolo." "About what I really don't know the whole story," Ms White explained. "All I know is it appears my son lost his life over some bulls...." "Now his son is left without a father." "My grandson is acting out at school. He's suffering."

Who was Rolo?

Autopsy

Dr. J. Powell, Harris County Institute of Forensic Science Assistant Medical Examiner autopsied Quincy White body and ruled White's death a homicide as result of multiple gunshot wounds of his torso and left upper extremity.

To backtrack the action, homicide investigators obtained a copy of the surveillance camera from the Green Street Store including the Bethlehem Baptist Church surveillance video at 1208 Meadow which is closer to Sydnor Street. Meadow Street is located no more than three or four blocks from where the murder happened on Green Street. A timer synchronized into the surveillance camera at Bethlehem Church captured these tantalizing clues:

1:39 AM--June 7, 2025 (Morning of the Murder); shortly thereafter when homicide investigators tapped into the City's License Plate Camera Recognition System they immediately saw a black Dodge Charger(license plate# WBB-5202) exit the Eastex Freeway, then turn 'right' onto Lyons Avenue, and began traveling Eastbound on Lyons.

Simultaneously, officers could see a shiny white 2020 Cadillac SUV (license plate# TJJ-7762) following behind the black Dodge Charger. At this critical point, both the black Dodge Charger and the Cadillac SUV were seen together just 23 minutes before Quincy White's last moments on earth!

1:42 AM--Again, three minutes later, a black Dodge Charger followed by the Cadillac SUV traveled down Sydnor Street, turning eastbound onto Green Street and drove past the Green Street Store. A review of the Green Street Store surveillance camera affirmed the sequence and the directions the black Charger took(beginning from the Bethelem Church on Meadow Street near Eastex Freeway).

City License Plate Readers Track Suspect Vehicles' Across Town

As sounds of traffic rumbled down the freeway; far across town among Houston’s bright lightshe the Automatic License Plate Readers' reaffirmed critical information the homicide investigators knew about the black Dodge Charger, license plate ## WBB-5202. A City surveillance camera tagged the Charger heading onto the Scott Street ramp as the roar of the motor proceeded northbound on I-45 South.

Later on at 2:59 A.M.-- while police used the license plate reader technology they spotted the white Cadillac SUV (similar in color and style to the SUV that followed behind the Dodge Charger earlier) in the 5th Ward. After watching the vehicles on surveillance video including the license plate readers scattered across the city the homicide team suspicion increased at a rapid pace. They believed both the black Dodge Charger and the Cadillac SUV was linked to the murder of Quincy White.

Vehicles Identified

The plate check for the Cadillac SUV (TJJ-7762) came back to Schantea Monique Tardy, address (2627 Tinas Terrace Drive, Houston, Texas 77038). Also on June 25, HPD officers A. Ku and S. Rivas stopped Herman Williams, aka Black, while driving a Black Dodge Charger (license plate # WBB-5202)—the same Charger suspected in the Green Street murder.

Fired Shell Casings Recovered

The homicide investigation intensified when officers miraculously found two spent .40 caliber “bronze color” Winchester shell casings in between the trim of the bottom part of the trunk and the rear bumper. Officers knew that both recovered .40-caliber shell casings recovered in Williams' Charger were consistent with (one) of the discharged .40-caliber shells collected from the 5th Ward murder scene. After police arrested Herman Williams, they noticed he had a fancy Apple iPhone, a phone Williams identified as his, and that nobody else used his iPhone.

Plot Thickens

On June 26, 2025, Sgt. Blake Roberts conducted a custodial interview of Herman Williams following his arrest on city municipal warrants. During the interview Williams repeatedly denied involvement in Quincy White's murder on June 7. Williams admitted he purchased the 2010 Black Dodge Charger in May—and that he is the only person who drove it. An officer escorted Williams back to a jail cell until he paid his city fines.

Homicide officers didn't realize that when patrol officers gave a courtesy ride to Gregory Davis, Williams's passenger, to the Red Roof Inn located at 9902 Gulf Freeway that circumstances at the hotel kept the officers hopeful of spearheading the break they needed. Yet all the crucial pieces of the homicide puzzle were few and far between.

Red Roof Surveillance

Determined to nail down every lead available the homicide officers Roberts and Wallschlaeger grew visibly excited when they noticed a beehive of activity after watching the Red Roof surveillance camera, the kind of activity possibly tied to the investigation of Quincy White’s murder. The footage revealed what appeared to be secretive meetings among suspected young men and ladies, most likely hinting at a coordinated plan to target Quincy.

Detectives leaned in closely, spotting peculiar behavior. Every movement on the screen seemed packed with meaning, fueling the team's anticipation and hope for a breakthrough. This rare glimpse into the suspects' behavior on June 7, happened exactly 38 minutes before Quincy's life would be snuffed out, and between 20-30 minutes after Quincy's murder happened. The following evidence on the cameras at Red Roof Inn proved the following:

• Suspect Herman Williams and girlfriend Lisa Jones had rented the room #133 since February 2025.
• Williams and Gregorey Davis were always there together.
• Around 1:15 AM-Williams' Dodge Charger and the Cadillac SUV bearing the same documented license plate number arrive together at the Red Roof Inn
• 1:21 AM-the driver of the Charger(Williams) exit the vehicle and walks to the front and, then the rear of the vehicle where he began tampering with the license plate.
• When the overhead light inside the Charger illuminated the human images the officers observed two black males later identified as Alfred Lucious and Ahmon Hogg; one was in the front passenger seat and the other sat in the rear passenger seat wearing orange gloves.
• Next, Williams strode over to the Cadillac SUV, chatted with the driver, walked to the rear-end of the Cadiilac, open the hatch-door and placed a short-barrell rifle inside.
• 1:22 AM--the Cadillac SUV followed Williams' Dodge Charger towards the entrance to head off to Green Street in 5th Ward.
• At 2:20 AM--Williams Dodge Charger returns to the Red Roof Inn with Alfred Lucious and Ahmon Hogg seated inside as passengers.
• Investigators determined Ahmon Hogg drove a 2012 Chrsyler 300(license plate# 'SKW-4917'. An automatic license plate reader captured Hogg's vehicle on June 6, 2025 (A day before the murder) on Green Street. Another city license plate reader captured the same Chrsyler 300 on the property of the Red Roof Inn where suspect Herman Williams lived.

Red Roof Inn Where Suspects Met to Plan Hit On Victim: Free Image Source: KYAK

Particularly interesting was the fact the police could see that one of the black males wore braided or twisted hair, including a black, long-sleeve, zip-up jacket, black pants, orange gloves, and distinctive-looking shoes. Finally, suspect Herman Williams and a second person entered room #133 while the other associates hung out near a Black BMW.

Approximately 2:49 AM, the Cadillac SUV returned to the Red Roof Inn.

"Looks like we may have our killers," one detective said.

Judge Sign Warrants

On July 2, 2025, Harris County Criminal Court District Judge Emily Detoto signed a warrant allowing police to search Williams' Dodge Charger.
Houston CSI Forensic Science investigator Jay Cano recovered the following items from the vehicle:

• Red Roof receipts
• Black screwdriver
• Debit card in Schantea Tardy's name
• Two .40 S&W discharged shell casings

A ballistic test conducted by NIBIN (National Integrated Ballistic Information Network) proved the .40-caliber shells recovered from the murder scene on Green Street matched the .40-caliber shells discovered in Williams' Dodge Charger. Sgt. Roberts looked satisfactorily at his partner as if to say, 'We got his ass in a jam.'

'How can he explain the ballistic match?'

Cell Phone Investigation

Investigators were able to look through Herman Williams's cell phone calls, voicemails, and text messages, thanks to a second search warrant that Judge Detoto signed. Detectives suspected Williams of communicating with the triggerman and other players. K. Daignault is a police officer and HPD forensic cellphone tech specialist. In order to hook and book the guilty parties it was Daignault's responsibility to filter out the sharing of incriminating information.

An Extraction of the Calls and Texts Revealed the Following:

June 6, 2025 (one day before the murder). at 7:58 PM, cell number '469-907-9558' send Williams a text message that said, "Wasup" Bro," and fina head back that way."

9:26 PM, Williams sent return text meassage to '469-907-9558'--"We waiting on u bro."

11:44 PM, '469-907-9558'--sends message to Williams; "I'm here at Latinos."

Latinos is a known popular Houston-based business called "LA Latinos Food Mart" located at 8615 Winkler Driver. With suspicion growing at leaps and bounds the officers smelled a "rat" about the cell number '469-907-9558.'

The HPD Report Management System (RMS) tied the phone to Alfred Lucious during his narcotic arrest on May 20, 2025. During an older drug arrest in 2017--police discovered murder suspect Herman Williams had been Lucious partner-in-crime on the dope case, eight years earlier. Both men, undoubtedly, knew each other quite well.

Another Suspicious Phone Number

The forensic cell phone specialist wasted no energy while extracting a goldmine of informational evidence. Specialist Daginault zeroed in on Williams call log. Williams had a contact listed as "AJ" under phone# '832-940-4236'. Communication between Herman Williams and "AJ" revealed the following messages on June 6, 2025( one day before the homicide):

• 11: 23 PM, From "AJ" phone# '832-940-4236' to Williams Phone#. "We going?
• 11:40 PM, Williams send message to '832-940-4236'---"Hey yall, want me and Rolo to work?"
• Rolo is a name listed under Williams iPhone contacts for cell# '469-907-9558'. Rolo is a street name for suspect#2 Alfred Lucious.

When Detective Wallschlaeger plugged "AJ"s phone#'832-940-4236' into HPD and Harris County System to possibly get a hit on a full name--- all the footprints in the sand drew closer and closer together.

Crack Shot: How Cell Phone Technology Identified "AJ"'s Conversations About Draco & ARP Guns

Detective Wallschlager dug deeper into the phone number related to the character "AJ". He utilized the "Verus" program, a program that record phone calls "to-or-from" the Harris County jail inmates.

He hit bingo!

An inmate from Harris County Jail called "AJ" at '832-940-4236'.

During their conversation, "AJ" told the inmate he'd impregnanted his girlfriend Kayln. AJ further told the inmate he'd been arrested with two ARPS', and a Draco. An ARP weapon is a compact rifle-caliber firearm built on the AR-15 model. An ARP still remain legally classified as a pistol. A Draco is a Romanian-designed semi-automatic pistol.

Wallschlager Kept Firing Away at '832-940-4236'

Next, he conducted a "Verus" search for any phone calls containing the words, "AJ", "Draco", Two, including "ARP." In a twist of artificial fortune, amazingly, Wallschlager discovered a call made on January 20, 2025--from Harris County Jail JPC (Joint Processing Center) to phone# '281-658-1836'. This particular important call was between a male inmate and a female. As the couple coversed the female's voice referred to the male inmate as "AJ".

Then, in a jolting moment that gave Detectives an extra adrenalin rush. "AJ" ran his big mouth too much and dropped a bombshell.

He informed the female he'd been arrested with his weapons--an ARP and a Draco, weapons far beyond in capacity that any ordinary street hustler would risk hauling around. "AJ'' 's mention of the weapons to his girlfriend were the same weapons "AJ" mentioned while talking to a male inmate who'd at the time called "AJ"'s phone on March 30, 2025.

Anxious to put a face on "AJ", Wallschlager kept pressing forward. Technology and previous captured information hit two home runs. First, the '281-658-1836' number--- proved when "AJ" called the female from jail he was identified as none other than Ahmon Hogg Jr.(DOB 6-25-2003).

Secondely, Wallschlager conducted a search into the phone# "281-658-1836". Again, another stroke of fortune happened. For example, phone# "281-658-1836'' belonged to Kalyn Jackson who is none other than "AJ"'s girlfriend--- the same young lady he bragged about impregnanting during his cell phone call with the imate.

Based on the incriminating circumstances linking the suspects directly to Quincy White murder the detectives were ecstatic over the fact that all the events that occurred were not coincidences. They felt convinced all the suspects were responsible for Quincy White death. Herman Williams III, 43, Alfred Lucious, 26, and Ahmon Hogg, 22, were finally charged in the connection with the fatal shooting of Quincy White on June 7-- on Green Street in Houston.

UPDATE NOVEMBER 18, 2025, HOUSTON POLICE DEPT MIDWEST CRIME SUPPRESSION TEAM ARRESTED 43-YEAR-OLD SCHANTEA MONIQUE TARDY FOR HER ROLE IN QUINCY WHITE'S MURDER. TARDY OWNED THE CADILLAC SUV SEEN ON CAMERAS FOLLOWING BEHIND HERMAN WILLIAMS DODGE CHARGER BEFORE AND AFTER THE MURDER.

"She (Tardy)was at my daughter-in-law birthday dinner on November 6th. I had no idea she was involved in my son's murder. this is crazy; it's like a movie," Lasonya White said, with a trace of outrage in her voice.

Each suspect faces a murder charge at Harris County Criminal Justice Center, and Williams also faces an evidence tampering charge, according to the City of Houston.

Police didn't have far to search for the suspects. Williams and Lucious were already in the Harris County Jail on unrelated charges. Hogg is in federal custody on separate charges related to a string of bank robberies. Booking photos of the suspects were released with the announcement of their arrests.

Police further discovered through Call Detail Records(CDR) that suspects Herman Williams, Alfred Lucious and Ahmon Williams switched off their cell phones before the commission of the homicide to prevent police from pinpointing their cell phone near the crime scene, Yet, again, thanks to the Flock cameras, surveillance cameras and the unique work of the cell phone extractions which pointed out all their prior calls and text messages.

What is Missing is the True Motive Behind the Homicide

According to investigators, street rumors point to a possible dispute or it could've been a territorial situation. Was Quincy White selling dope at Williams and Lucious favorite spot? White may have slapped Alfred Lucious AKA Rolo. Rolo's girlfriend was identified as Schantea Tardy. As mentioned, Tardy's Cadillac SUV had been identified as the second vehicle involved in the murder.

The victim's mother, Lasonya White, learned that the girlfriend of Alfred Lucious identified as Shantea Tardy allegedly tried to motivate Quincy to rob Lucious. And that, "My son slapped Lucious. I still don't know the whole truth."

All four criminal defendants now charged in the death of Quincy White has the presumption of innocence under Texas law until proven guility in a court of law. If proven guilty of murder each person will face no less than 5 years in prison and up to 99 years or life in state prison.

This case highlights the power of technology and traditional investigative techinques; how it all merged together to solve a violent crime which reflects a growing trend in urban law enforcement.

The combination of digital evidence like the cell phones, surveillance cameras, license plate readers and ballistics provided a clearer picture of the prior and concluded criminal events that ultimately assisted the Houston P.D. homicide investigators in bringing forth the alleged guilty parties, and, advancing justice for Lasonya White and her family and the whole community affected by the tragic death of Quincy White.

Overall, until our communities in the inner-cities can find better ways to resolve disputes among the ugliness of human behavior without pulling the trigger of a gun, Quincy's story may repeat itself in endless, devastating ways across the wounded hearts of the 5th Ward and throughout the nation. Let's dedicate ourselves to do better. And learn to respect and care about each other.

"I want every one of them charged in my son's death to pay. I mean the court should give them life because my child doesn't have his life anymore. He's dead," Lasonya White lamented in an emotional voice. "I plan to make every court appearances," I want justice for my child."

The Houston Police Department is asking anyone with information about the case to contact authorities, as the investigation remain ongoing, as stated by the City of Houston. Call HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.

Senior Reporter Clarence Walker can be reached at crimebeat360@gmail.com