HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Authorities are ordering a southwest Houston funeral dwelling to stop all operations on Monday after the stays of at the very least 10 individuals had been present in stunning circumstances.
The Texas Funeral Service Fee inspected the Richardson Mortuary on Brookfield Drive on Friday when the our bodies had been first found uncovered and with out air con. They discovered the mortuary didn’t meet constructing, well being, and security codes.
Within the cease-and-desist letter, the fee additionally cites the homeowners’ fraudulent, unprofessional, and misleading conduct.
Police had been initially referred to as to the mortuary simply earlier than midday on April 11 after a funeral dwelling employee allegedly stabbed a buyer who’d begun filming our bodies. The video captured our bodies mendacity on tables and others wrapped in plastic or inside caskets.
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Police say the person filmed all of the our bodies there, which infuriated a employee, who then stabbed him. The district lawyer declined to press costs for the stabbing.
The shopper filming and a member of the family had gone to the funeral dwelling as a result of they’d grown suspicious about the place their mom’s and uncle’s our bodies had been being saved. An unidentified funeral dwelling employee ultimately confronted them and ordered them to depart. After they refused, the employee allegedly stabbed considered one of them within the abdomen.
Police described the wound as minor and mentioned the sufferer was capable of drive himself to the hospital.
HPD mentioned it was nonetheless trying into the stabbing case and whether or not any costs could be filed.
ABC13 drove by the power on Monday, and the car parking zone was blocked off. There was additionally no exercise on the funeral dwelling.
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