Harris County man out on multiple bonds accused of murdering man in front of his parents
HOUSTON - Last Monday, 20-year-old Malcolm Lewis came to this family-owned car lot at Fuqua and Seaford to buy a vehicle. Instead, police say he committed murder.
Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Abdelmalak was gunned down in front of his parents.
"My parents are in shambles," said Daniel's sister Stephany Abdelmalak. "Every morning, they wake up with the shock of their son being missing. They keep screaming my son is gone, my son is gone. How are we going to live? He's our backbone and our right hand, what are we going to do without him?"
Police say Lewis went to the dealership with a friend.
"They knocked down my father," Stephany said. "After knocking down my father, my brother was obviously defensive trying to get them to back off."
That's when police say Lewis shot the couple's only son to death.
"I don't even know how I'm standing here in front of you right now," Stephany said.
Last year, Lewis got probation for a felony conviction in the 177th District Court. A few months later, he was charged with aggravated robbery. That led to a motion to revoke his probation.
But instead of acting on that motion, 177th Criminal District Court Judge Robert Johnson set Lewis's bond at just $40,000.
"How do you give a bond to someone who is on probation, then charged with robbery, who you're trying to get that probation revoked?" said Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers.
If the court had acted on the motion and revoked Lewis's bond, Daniel would be alive today.
"Now, you've got a 25-year-old that basically paid the price for those decisions because he lost his life," Kahan said.
Daniel died in his mother's arms.
"I can't fathom how she feels," Stephany said. "The trauma and the stress that's going to be relayed for the rest of our lives."