{"id":108133,"date":"2024-12-10T00:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T00:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/80-year-old-military-veteran-killed-over-parking-spot-argument-police-say\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T00:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T00:03:51","slug":"80-year-old-military-veteran-killed-over-parking-spot-argument-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/80-year-old-military-veteran-killed-over-parking-spot-argument-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"80-year-old military veteran killed over parking spot argument, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(HOUSTON) — A military veteran died after allegedly being physically attacked during an argument over a parking space outside of a Houston, Texas grocery store, according to a statement from the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earl Hollins, 80, was allegedly assaulted by Anthony Ray Boyce, 57, on Friday during the disagreement in a Food Town parking lot, the HCSO said. Boyce allegedly drove away in Hollins’ car after the attack, according to the HCSO.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hollins suffered severe head trauma, fell into a coma and was not expected to recover, his family told ABC affiliate KTRK<\/a> in Houston. He was pronounced dead on Dec. 7 at a local hospital, the HCSO confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he [did], it wasn’t right,\u201d Hollins’ niece, Elma Hollins-Washington, told KTRK. “It wasn’t human.”<\/p>\n

The HCSO said it’s investigating the altercation between Hollins and Boyce, including how the two men may have been acquainted before the incident.<\/p>\n

“Someone was saying that he knew the guy because they always used to be around Food Town,” Hollins-Washington said, adding that the family is still in disbelief over what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I said, ‘My god, over a parking spot. You’re going to injure my uncle, and now, finally, he’s dead, and it was over a parking spot,'” Hollins-Washington said. “You took something great from us, something that we will never get over.”<\/p>\n

According to HCSO records, Boyce is being held in the Harris County Jail on $100,000 bond, charged with aggravated assault with serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n

Detectives will meet with the Harris County District Attorney\u2019s Office to determine if that charge will be upgraded following Hollins’ death, the HCSO told ABC News.<\/p>\n

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