[h1]Mom implicated, charged in armed attack on daughter[/h1]
DALE LEZON, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
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[h5]By DALE LEZON and MIKE GLENN, HOUSTON CHRONICLE[/h5] [h5] Updated 09:36 p.m., Friday, November 18, 2011 [/h5]
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Two armed men grabbed a 14-year-old girl early Friday outside a home in the 9200 block of Woodland Oaks in northwest Harris County. (Dale Lezon/Chronicle)
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Two armed men grabbed a 14-year-old girl early Friday outside a...
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Crime scene tape surrounds the scene. The girl's mother and a man shot by the teen's father have been charged. (Dale Lezon/Chronicle)
Crime scene tape surrounds the scene. The girl's mother and a...
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The mother of a teenage girl held hostage by home invaders Friday morning has been implicated in the attempted break-in, where one of the attackers was shot by the girl's father, Harris County sheriff's officials confirmed.
Deanna Horn was charged with aggravated robbery after two armed men grabbed her 14-year-old daughter about 6:40 a.m. outside a home in the 9200 block of Woodland Oaks in northwest Harris County.
Sheriff's officials late Friday declined to say what Horn's alleged role was in the attempted home invasion, citing the investigation.
Sheriff's officials said
Matthew Hendricks and another man grabbed the teenager at gunpoint shortly after she left home for school.
"They held a gun to her head and said, 'Open the door,' " said
Christina Garza, with the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
The girl's father was inside the house and heard the commotion, Garza said. "He grabbed his gun and fired through the door."
He then went outside to confront the attackers.
"Hendricks was still holding on to the girl, saying he would kill her," Garza said.
The father then fired a second time, wounding Hendricks in the abdomen. He was taken to
Memorial Hermann Hospital, where his condition wasn't known later Friday. He has been charged with aggravated robbery.
The teenager was described as "shaken up" by the ordeal but otherwise unharmed, investigators said.
Sheriff's detectives are continuing to search for the second attacker, who fled after the father fired through the front door.
Friday's incident was the second in as many days in which an area homeowner has opened fire and wounded an attacker during a home invasion.
On Thursday morning, a father and his 7-year-old son were wounded when the father exchanged gunfire with four to five men who rushed into his home in north Houston.
Houston police said the men followed a woman as she entered her home and forced their way inside. They ordered the woman and other family members to lie on the floor, but the boy ran down a hallway calling out for his father.
Police said the man came out of bedroom and exchanged gunfire with the attackers, who fled from the house.
Some of the men reportedly left in a tan or gold minivan they had driven to the house. Others ran.
Later, police found two of the attackers with gunshot wounds at
LBJ General Hospital.
One was treated and released to police custody. The other is in critical condition.
Both are expected to be charged with aggravated robbery, officials said. Police are searching for the other gunmen.
dale.lezon@chron.commike.glenn@chron.com
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