Woman helping cancer-stricken friend executed in alleged carjacking attack: 'Heard a scream'

A Texas pistillate is dormant aft being changeable successful an alleged carjacking portion visiting her cancer-stricken champion friend. 

Marietta Allison traveled from Austin to Houston to travel person Cassie Daniel to her 2nd attraction for signifier 4 ovarian crab connected Saturday, March 7. 

Following a time astatine the infirmary successful which Allison took attraction of Daniel arsenic she received a circular of chemotherapy, the brace of friends near astir 10:30 p.m. to walk the nighttime astatine a adjacent friend’s house. 

When determination was nary parking astatine the building, Allison dropped Daniel and her begetter disconnected and circled the artifact to find determination to permission the car. 

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Marietta Allison smiles alongside her friend, Cassie Daniel, connected a abrogation to Egypt. (Courtesy of Cassie Daniel)

"We were putting our things away, and I heard a shriek and past a gunshot," Daniel told Fox News Digital. "I felt similar thing ample dropped to the floor, and I was like, ‘Was that a gunshot?’" 

When Daniel realized Allison had not returned from parking the car, she began to worry. 

"I stepped retired into the surviving country and told my friends, ‘Was that a gunshot?’" Daniel said. "She was like, ‘Have you heard from Marietta?’ and I said no. And my person said, ‘Well, I conscionable tried to telephone her, and she didn't answer.’" 

Marietta Allison and Cassie Daniel became friends successful November 2021 done a enactment programme they were some enrolled in. (Courtesy of Cassie Daniel)

Feeling arsenic though thing was wrong, Daniel went to the past known determination of Allison’s phone, wherever she recovered Allison lying connected the sidewalk surrounded by constabulary officers. 

"She was lying connected the ground, and the paramedics were astir her and I could spot her purse down connected the sidewalk," Daniel said, adding Allison’s wallet was near astatine the scene.

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Marietta Allison was gunned down successful an alleged carjacking portion driving her person to crab attraction successful Houston, Texas connected Friday, March 6, 2026. (Courtesy of Cassie Daniel)

Authorities rapidly learned that the conveyance Allison was driving was missing, launching a frantic hunt for an evident carjacker arsenic her loved ones watched helplessly arsenic she was transported to a hospital, wherever she aboriginal died from her injuries.  

"She was astir instantly killed, if not conscionable a fewer seconds later," Daniel told Fox News Digital. "She was changeable benignant of done the cervix and done the head."

Following a little search, officers recovered 18-year-old Darius DeWayne Hall driving the victim’s stolen vehicle, resulting successful a high-speed chase, according to KHOU 11. 

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Marietta Allison was gunned down successful an alleged carjacking portion driving her person to crab attraction successful Houston, Texas connected Friday, March 6, 2026. (Courtesy of Cassie Daniel)

Hall subsequently crashed the conveyance on the Southwest Freeway and attempted to fly connected foot, sparking an hours-long standoff successful a adjacent residential area, according to the outlet.

"I opened my doorway astir 4:15 a.m., and determination was an serviceman connected his knees with a shield and 1 down him with a weapon pointing close down the stairs to that portion wherever they recovered him," neighbour Ken Knisely told KHOU 11.

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Hall was aboriginal taken into custody astatine astir 7 a.m. and charged with superior execution stemming from Allison’s death.

Marietta Allison was driving person Cassie Daniel to crab attraction successful Houston, Texas erstwhile she was changeable and killed by an alleged carjacker connected Friday, March 6, 2026. (Courtesy of Cassie Daniel)

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In the contiguous aftermath of the shooting, Daniel is choosing to retrieve Allison arsenic a loving idiosyncratic who spent her past moments taking attraction of her person successful need. 

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"She was virtually sitting successful the infirmary bed, spoon-feeding maine a effect bowl," Daniel told Fox News Digital arsenic she recalled her last time with Allison. "And I was like, ‘Love similar this exists.’"

Marietta Allison was gunned down successful an alleged carjacking portion driving her person to crab attraction successful Houston, Texas connected Friday, March 6, 2026. (Courtesy of Cassie Daniel)

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"So I could spot the tender care, compassion, empathy and conscionable the emotion that was there. And astatine the aforesaid time, I was like, this is simply a precious moment. I had nary thought that it would beryllium 1 of my past moments with her." 

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The Houston Police Department did not respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.