The Houston Police Department continues to work through the 260,000 suspended incident reports. One of those cases is the assault of a man two years ago, and police say charges now can’t be pursued because there is now a lack of evidence.
Millicent Holliday said her brother, Omie Holliday, is disabled and can’t speak up for himself, so she’s dedicated to being his voice.
She said that after being alerted that HPD suspended her brother’s case, she had spent several months fighting for answers.
Millicent Holliday said in 2022, her brother was a client at the day program Center for Pursuit and noticed something about his face looked wrong at pickup.
“I asked him to take his glasses off, and he had two black eyes,” she said.
A doctor told her, in addition to bruised and swollen eyes, that her brother had a fractured knee, so she filed a police report.
She said the day program told her another client hit Omie Holliday at the facility.
Police told her they could not press charges because the altercation was between two people with mental disability. She said she stopped hearing from police earlier this year.