On February 14, 2023, 65-year-old grandmother Judy Walters was shot and killed during a carjacking in the 800 block of Yorkchester Drive in Houston, Texas. The attack occurred about 7:55 a.m. as Walters sat in her white 2020 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross. Two young males wearing black bandanas approached, shot her, pulled her from the vehicle and fled in the car, striking her as they drove away. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.

Surveillance footage showed the suspects had been loitering at the apartment complex for roughly eight hours before the attack, and investigators say there may have been a prior disagreement between Walters and the suspects, suggesting the incident was not random. The stolen vehicle was later found abandoned in an empty garage at the deserted Sugar Hill Golf Course about 10 miles from the scene.

On March 14, 2023, Houston police arrested 17-year-old Owen Leonardo Vilanova-Ardon and charged him with capital murder; prosecutors called him the gunman while Vilanova-Ardon has said a second, unidentified suspect was the shooter. Authorities continue to seek that second suspect. If anyone has information about this case or the unidentified assailant, contact the HPD Homicide Division or Crime Stoppers.