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<\/source><\/picture>An 18-year-old driver of a stolen vehicle has been charged with felony murder for the death of a 75-year-old pastor and mother of a Houston Police Department sergeant.<\/p>\n
Gloria Collins was struck by Trenton Bevel at a red light around 10:15 a.m. on Sept. 7 on Martin Luther King Boulevard, near Van Fleet Street, according to the Houston Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n The collision occurred moments after police lost sight of Bevel, who was driving a stolen Dodge Charger. Collins died at the scene, roughly 2 miles from her MacGregor Park-area home.<\/p>\n Houston Police Chief Troy Finner identified Collins as the mother of an HPD sergeant.<\/p>\n A family member was quoted as saying she was a faith leader with the Church of the Living God. Jerry Burley, who had known Collins for 30 years and was her pastor for 15, told KHOU<\/a>, \u201cShe had so much talent it was unreal. Anything she set her mind to do. She did it.\u201d<\/p>\n Bevel, who was driving a Dodge Charger reported stolen earlier that week, is hospitalized in critical condition, according to officials. He has been charged with felony murder, a charge often applied when a death occurs during the commission of another felony \u2014 in this case, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, as per court documents.<\/p>\n A judge has set a $500,000 bond for Bevel.<\/p>\n Houston police said Bevel and another man carjacked a woman in the Hobby Airport area the day before the fatal crash. The victim, Cathleen Hill, was quoted as saying, \u201cThese two young guys dressed in camo, a ski mask, they robbed me at gunpoint.\u201d Hill was able to track her car using a dealership device and inform the police.<\/p>\n Police had been pursuing the stolen Dodge Charger but ended the chase after losing sight of Bevel about a mile from the crash site, authorities said. Chief Finner stated that the fatal wreck was not related to the prior pursuit or HPD chase policies.<\/p>\n Two other innocent people were injured in the crash and were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n Homegoing Services have been scheduled for Thursday morning at 5th Ward Baptist Church in Houston.<\/p>\n One Cecilia Blane Darden wrote on Facebook, \u201cWe were excited about the upcoming conference in Temple. I get a call that broke my heart. I\u2019m still in disbelief but God is a God that make no mistakes, and you are a woman that loves our Heavenly Father. He called his daughter home, but God my God my God, one day we will rejoice again Dr. Gloria Collins<\/a>. A few years ago we celebrated the Superbowl at Sea, we had a wonderful time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n