Police said Mylon Louis Colquitt used a hook commonly used to tow vehicles to kill his grandmother.
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HPD officers responded to a home at 4204 Russell Street near Cavalcade St. in the Kashmere Gardens area at 9:20 a.m. on Monday after family members asked for a welfare check.
At the scene, officers found the 66-year-old woman dead with multiple stab wounds to the face.
Family members identified the victim as Sheila Lewis. They told ABC13 she was the suspect's grandmother.
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Lewis' son told ABC13 that Colquitt had been having issues with drugs and violence for years, but Lewis insisted on caring for him.
"We told her he didn't need to be here because he didn't want help, but she had such a soft spot for him, being that it was her first grandchild, so she gave him chance after chance," Lewis' son, Christopher, said.
Colquitt's bond was set at $750,000.
"Everyone, friends of the family, everyone has done what they can for this boy. Anybody that could pitch in, everybody that could talk to him, tried to tell him, 'Hey, this is not the road you want to travel,'" Christopher said. "In the end, you can't help everybody, and the person you tried to help the most was the one who took your life."
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