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Channel: SCOTT ENGLE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE REPORTER- · 2013 · News & Politics

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AUGUST 18, 2012
MANS VIOLENT RAMPAGE TERRORIZES FAMILY, INJURES 7-YEAR-OLD AND AN OFFICER
CONROE-- A Conroe man is in jail and a Conroe Police Officer is injured following a string of events that apparently began when a woman left her allegedly abusive husband and he decided to find her.

Louis Willis and his wife Markeshia told police they watched television most of the night, unable to sleep because of unrest in the wife’s family. Around 5:30 a.m., Louis Willis went to the bedroom of their house on Avenue J Place near Martin Luther King, while Markeshia Willis stayed on a couch in the living room, with their 7-year-old son Khalil asleep on another couch in the same room.

The peace and quiet ended around 6 a.m. when Markeshia Willis’s father, 56-year-old Willie Cleveland, Sr., arrived unannounced with a shotgun. Police say Cleveland believed his daughter was hiding his wife. He fired three shots at the door of his daughter’s home, with the third blasting the door open. The couch on which Khalil Willis slept was close to the door and his head was on the end nearest the door.

Amazingly, the pellets missed little Khalil’s head, though some went into the couch and some went through a Styrofoam cup on the end table by his feet and his foot was struck, the injury was not serious. Markeshia Willis lay on the other couch, with the couches in an “L” shape, with her head near the same end table. Pellets from the shots went into the wall over her head but also missed her, somehow. Louis Willis heard the first shot and thought it was the glass top of one of the living room tables breaking. He got out of bed and went to see what was happening, but Cleveland was already gone. Another child ran into the room, looked out the window as he drove away, and said, “That was Pawpaw.”

Their “Pawpaw” was not finished. While police were responding to the report of shots fired at the Willis residence, Cleveland went to the home of his mother-in-law. She was awakened by the sound of Cleveland repeatedly ramming his Dodge 1500 pickup into two vehicles parked in her driveway. Neither vehicle Cleveland damaged belonged to his wife, and she was not at that location either. He left again. Conroe Police were dispatched to that call as well, and an “attempt to locate” was broadcast with a description of Cleveland’s pickup.

CPD Detective Juan Sauceda was in the area of Avenue F and 10th Street when he spotted and began following Cleveland’s vehicle. He called for backup as Cleveland turned south on 12th Street, which is a dead-end road. Cleveland went to the end and turned around then sped back toward Sauceda’s patrol car, striking it in the side and pushing it into a deep bar ditch. Both the driver and passenger doors were caved in and Sauceda was trapped. Cleveland’s pickup continued about 30 feet, through a cyclone fence, narrowly missing a house.

Cleveland got out of his truck and began walking down the street. More police arrived and they ordered him to get on the ground, but Cleveland ignored them, forcing them to use a Taser to subdue him and place him under arrest.

The shotgun in the front seat of Cleveland’s pickup had a jammed bullet, which police theorize may be why he stopped on the third shot and left his daughter’s home.

Detective Sauceda has an injured elbow and hand. The extent of the injury is unknown.

Khalil Willis was transported to the hospital where he was treated and released.

The District Attorney’s Office was still determining the charges against Cleveland as of this writing.

The family told police Cleveland was physically abusive to his wife and she had left and gone where she hoped he would not find her.

Willie Cleveland has a long history of being on the wrong side of the law, but if the name sounds familiar, it may be because of his son.

In November 1999, 18-year-old Willie Cleveland, Jr. died in a botched robbery at McCarty’s Grocery in the 1700 block of North First Street. Conroe Police found him dead from a single gunshot wound near the door of the store. The female clerk was found dead behind the counter. Video revealed the clerk shot Cleveland once before her gun jammed, prompting him to go around the counter and beat her then fire three shots into her. By the time he reached the front of the store, he could go no further and fell to the floor where he too died.

This story will be updated as information becomes available.

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