Recently obtained video shows the couple casually walking into a library to read a news article about the search for the woman’s murdered son two days before the Houston House of Horrors case was arrested by police. to be done.
Brian Coulter, 31, has been charged with a felony charge for allegedly assaulting and killing his autistic eight-year-old Kendrick Lee, and then left his body to rot in a Houston apartment with his starving brothers , ages 15, 10 and 7. about a year. His bond is worth $1 million.
Kendrick’s mother Gloria Williams, 35, has been charged with hurting a child and tampering with evidence – a human corpse. Last week a judge increased his bond to $1.5 million, finding the previous amount of $900,000 “inadequate.”
The rotting remains of Kendrick were found inside a bare, insect-infested apartment on the Citypark II complex on October 24, when Williams’ eldest son called officers for help.
New video shows Brian Coulter and Gloria Williams, who are at the center of an investigation into the Houston House of Horrors, entering a Houston library on October 26, two days after police found the skeletal remains of the woman’s son .
Williams is seen above smiling, two days after her starving surviving sons were taken into state custody
In the video, the couple is seen talking to a librarian. They reportedly went to the library to read online news articles about themselves
Williams and Coulter are seen leaving the library, with the woman holding a sheet of paper
Williams and Coulter were initially interviewed by police and released.
Two days later, Judson W. Surveillance cameras from the Robinson Westches Neighborhood Library caught the couple entering the branch at 4.42 p.m. The video was obtained exclusively abc13 Via a public records request.
Footage shows the couple, dressed in all black, approaching a librarian and engaging him in conversation. Williams is seen spreading a smile on her boyfriend.
According to previous reporting, Williams and Coulter went to the library to see news about their case involving Kendrick and his surviving brothers.
The couple was later seen leaving the library holding a sheet of paper in Williams’ hand.
Moments after the couple emerge from their library, they are arrested by law enforcement.
As they approached their parked car, law enforcement officers surrounded them and took them into custody.
During Williams’ bond hearing last week, prosecutors revealed new information about the disturbing case, in which Williams received a total of $2,000 payments from the government to help care for her three children, including Kendrick. month, reported. KTRK,
According to prosecutors, even after Kendrick’s death in November 2020, she continued to receive financial aid, which she did not report to authorities.
Prosecutors said the money Williams was receiving allowed her to pay rent on two apartments she and Coulter had been living in since March.
A search of the couple’s apartment revealed that it was fully furnished, as opposed to the unit on the Citypark II campus, 15 minutes away, where Williams’ sons lived near the corpse of their brother, who was bare and were covered with cockroaches. was crawling along.
The children alleged that they were locked in the one-bedroom living room with the decomposing remains of Kendrick, while Coulter and Williams still lived with them.
Williams reportedly delivered groceries to the apartment once a month and paid rent on the apartment to prevent a search for Kendrick’s body.
During a jailhouse interview with KOOU11 two weeks ago, Williams said she was “sorry” but denied knowing that Kendrick had died, even though a possible cause, which had previously been read in court, was the mother. She reportedly admitted to investigators that she knew the girl was dead, but was afraid to report it to the police.
According to law enforcement, Kendrick’s body was left to rot under a blue blanket in a bug-infested bedroom for nearly a year while Williams and Coulter moved into another apartment. , the children were left to their own care.
Asked why he abandoned his sons – one of whom was reportedly seriously injured after being punched in the face by Coulter – Williams replied: ‘I checked on him every two weeks. .’
The children were rescued by sheriff’s deputies after Williams’ 15-year-old son called 911. All three boys, described as malnourished, were forced to subsist for months on snacks supplied by their mothers and food donations from concerned neighbours.
Officers alleged that Coulter punched and kicked Kendrick around Thanksgiving Day last year, and Williams refused to report him to the police, claiming she feared her children would be taken and She will end up in jail.
During Williams’s previous court appearance, a prosecutor read aloud a statement of probable cause, which revealed that three of the mother’s surviving children witnessed the fatal beating of their brother.
The children claimed that Coulter hit an eight-year-old boy with his fist and kicked him in the face, legs, back, testicles and buttocks.
Coulter (left), 31, is accused of allegedly thrashing his girlfriend’s autistic eight-year-old child. 35-year-old Williams (right) is charged with omission to hurt a child and tampering with evidence
Kendrick Lee, seen in a colorful T-shirt above, was murdered in November 2020 and then left to rot in an apartment with his brothers for a year.
Williams’ 7-year-old son told deputies that Coulter continued to kick Kendrick, who was lying on the floor and not moving, while staring at the younger brother across the room.
After the prosecutor said that Kendrick’s eyes had turned black and he had stopped blinking, Coulter covered him with a blue blanket.
When Williams entered the bedroom to examine her son and saw that he was dead, she began to cry and fight with Coulter.
Her 15-year-old son told investigators he believed his mother would call the police on Coulter, but “she never did.” He then left his surviving children with his brother’s decomposed body and without any adult supervision.
William’s 10-year-old son told investigators that when Williams came into the apartment at a later date and picked up the blanket from Kendrick, they found “his body, legs and teeth turned into a skeleton,” and “his hair.” It was closed.’ It is being told that his rotten body was covered with cockroaches.
The 10-year-old also claimed that Coulter would beat her too, hit her in the face, abdomen, buttocks and legs and broke her jaw last month.
When police reached the apartment on October 24, they found the child with a swollen jaw. The prosecutor said the boy told the hospital the next day that his mother “was aware of the injury, but did not seek medical help for him.”
Officials said the 10-year-old would require surgery to treat his facial fracture.
Williams appeared in court last week and her bond was increased to $1.5 million
When questioned by detectives, Williams claimed that she stopped the assault when she entered the bedroom around Thanksgiving 2020 and found Coulter beating her son, Kendrick.
Tracing the day after Kendrick’s death, Williams claimed that she confronted her boyfriend, who she said was sorry, that he lost her and punched her, and then fell asleep until she fell asleep. did not go. Till then he kept on punching him.
Williams reportedly told investigators that she knew her son had died a year earlier, but she did not go to the police because Coulter told her not to do so, and also because she was afraid. that his son has died. The children will be taken away and she will go to jail. ,
The children lived in miserable conditions for months as they waited for their mother to report to the authorities that their brother had been beaten to death and left to rot. Investigators say the mother never called and the eldest surviving son, 15, finally overcame his ‘absolute fear’ and called officers on Sunday.