Orange police and Texas Child Protective Services are investigating injuries to a baby girl Sunday night. Police were called to the apartments at 3819 Meeks Drive at 9 p.m. Sunday because of the child being unresponsive. Detective Captain Robert Enmon said the girl was younger than a year. She was first taken to a local hospital and then to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Captain Enmon said she was in stable condition Monday.
Burglars hit the Church of Christ in the Old Orange Historic District and stole appliances. Orange police were called to 501 Ninth Street at 12:30 p.m. Sunday after the items were missing from the church’s auxiliary building. Police said a washer and dryer that were packaged and sitting on a pallet were missing from inside the dining room. Also several TVs were missing.
Also Sunday, a resident in the 900 block of Third Street reported that a Craftsman push lawn mower had been taken from a storage shed.
On Friday, a burglary was reported at an apartment at 2500 Allie Payne Road and on Saturday, a resident at 111 Pine Avenue apartments reported items stolen.
A theft at a house in the 3800 block of Eddie Street is being investigated. The resident told police packages worth $185.86 had been delivered and stolen from the porch.
A 58-year-old woman may have suffered a seizure or another medical problem that caused the SUV she was driving to leave the roadway and hit parked construction equipment on Allie Payne Road.
The woman and her 52-year-old passenger were taken by Acadian Ambulance to the Baptist Hospital Orange Emergency Room after the collision that happened about 2:30 p.m. Friday. The crash was in the 3200 block of Allie Payne Road, west of White Oak Road.
Lieutenant Garrold Keaton said the 2016 Hyundai Santa Fe SUV the woman was driving went off the roadway and traveled about 110 feet before hitting the construction equipment. The woman was given citations for no driver’s license and failure to maintain a single lane.
Orange police say the shooting death of a 46-year-old man Friday night is being investigated as a homicide and a family member was involved.
Marvin Cordell Cooper Jr. died at a Beaumont hospital after being shot in the head during a disturbance at a house at 2609 Eighth Street in the Brownwood neighborhood.
Detective Captain Robert Enmon said the coroner’s report says the shooting was a homicide. As of Monday afternoon, no arrests have been made. Captain Enmon said several people were at the house during the disturbance and alcohol was involved. Investigators have been talking to the witnesses.
Police were called to the disturbance at 8:16 Friday night and patrol officers found Cooper inside with the gunshot to the head. He was first taken by ambulance to Baptist Hospital Emergency Room in Orange and then to the Trauma Center at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
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