After just about two-and-a-half hours, a Fort Bend County jury convicted former Missouri City police officer Bladimir Viveros of three counts of aggravated assault by a public servant in the June 20, 2024 crash that killed a Stafford woman and her teenage son and, later, a man who had been unrestrained in the back seat of Viveros’s vehicle and wasn’t found for hours afterward.
According to evidence presented in trial, Viveros, then 27, was going as fast as 107 mph along Cartwright Road near Texas Parkway, a major Missouri City thoroughfare, after dark while responding to an aggravated robbery call. He slammed into the Toyota Corolla driven by Mason Stewart, who was driving his mother Angela, 53, out of the parking lot of a strip center, killing both of them instantly. They had been celebrating Mason’s 16th birthday.
Hours after police and emergency vehicles responded to the crash, investigators discovered Michael Hawkins, 53, in the back seat of Viveros’s crashed and burning vehicle, calling for help. Hawkins was the resident of a nearby group home where he had been involved in an argument or fight that Viveros had responded to. Hawkins was transported to Ben Taub Hospital in the Texas Medical Center with grave injuries, and later died after having never left the hospital…