Teen Killed By Her Mother’s Boyfriend
By Admin
A 60-year-old man named Van Brisbon has been shrouded in infamy after allegedly killing Lauren Juma, his girlfriend’s 16-year-old daughter.
The tragedy went down last week in Humble, Texas, part of Greater Houston.
At around 1 a.m. on April 29, Juma frantically FaceTimed her mother — who was out of town for work — shortly before she was killed.
“My baby called me, FaceTimed me and she said, ‘Mom, help me!’” her mother, Laurie Young, recalled. “That’s the last time I heard her voice.”
While on the phone with Young, Juma — a sophomore at Nimitz High School — screamed “Mom, he has a gun!”
She also reached out to her older sister, Keryca Harmon.
“She just wanted to get away, that’s all she wanted,” Harmon said. “She just said he was being really weird and wanted me to pick her up.”
Authorities were soon dispatched to the scene, though they heard gunshots as they neared the residence. Upon entering, officers found that the 16-year-old was already dead.
Brisbon was then apprehended and taken into custody, though he “was not cooperative with investigators,” according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
Harmon was also on-scene when the gunshots rang out.
“I was there for three minutes before I heard two gunshots go off, and I could just remember running up to the house and officers telling me to go back to my car,” she recalled.
