90-year-old Eleouise Adcock threatened construction workers with a shotgun because they were excavating dirt and loading it onto a barge next to her house
Channelview is a town of fewer than 40,000 residents located by the San Jacinto River, about 15 miles east of downtown Houston. Eleouise Adcock, 90, has lived in the house built on the bank of the river more than 40 years ago by her late husband. All the property around her has been bought up by businesses and developers. She has refused to sell her property. A marine towing company has moved in on either side of her hose, tearing down four other houses to make room for their equipment.
Construction workers were excavating dirt next to Adcock’s property Thursday morning and loading it into a barge. That seems to have pissed-off the great grandma. She came out on the porch and threatened the workers with a shotgun. She had done this before, but this time she seemed more menacing. The workers called 9-1-1.
When Harris County sheriff’s deputies arrived they found Adcock sitting in a chair on the porch, holding a shotgun in her lap. When she refused to drop the gun, the deputies called for the SWAT team. Finally, after a four-hour standoff, Adcock put the gun down. SWAT officers rushed her, first grabbing the gun and then her. They did treat Adcock gently and took her to waiting paramedics to be checked out. Because of her age, she was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
A Harris County Sheriff’s official said that no charges were expected to be filed in this case.
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