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Richmond rookie officer's training helped foil carjacking

By ROBERT CROWE
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

Holly Mong was just six months into her career as a police officer when she shot two armed men who tried to hijack her car outside her Jersey Village apartment.

Police said Mong, 22, a Richmond Police Department rookie, was wearing civilian clothes about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday when two suspects climbed into her Jeep Liberty and pointed guns at her head as she was starting the vehicle.

"It was her training that helped her react in that situation," said detective Sgt. C.J. Harper of the Jersey Village Police Department.

On her off day, she was about to drive to Richmond to attend an in-service training class.

"The suspects had no way of knowing she was an officer," said Jersey Village Police Chief Charles N. Wedemeyer.

When the men ordered her to move to the passenger seat, she grabbed her gun from her purse and fired several times, killing one man and striking another.

Police later found a third suspect hiding nearby in a getaway car.

Wedemeyer said police do not think the suspects fired their weapons.

The two surviving suspects were charged Wednesday with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.

Wedemeyer said investigators think the men may have been involved in other carjackings and robberies in the Houston area.

Cordale Stubblefield, 19, of Cypress, was killed in the shooting.

Christopher Wayne Yell, 19, of the 31600 block of Cypress Circle in Waller, was in critical condition at a local hospital. His bail was set at $200,000.

Yell had been sentenced to four years of probation in June for a residential burglary charge.

The third suspect, Marcus Marquis Holmes, 20, of the 16500 block of Cypress Thicket in Cypress, is being held in the Harris County Jail on $150,000 bail.

Investigators said Mong spent Wednesday with family and counselors away from her apartment.

"She was shaken up at the time, but I think she's holding up pretty well, considering there was a life-and-death struggle in that car," Wedemeyer said.

Mong declined repeated requests for interviews.

Her fiance, Shawn Horton, is an officer in Jersey Village.

"Many of us know her through her fiance," Harper said. "She's a very dedicated and conscientious individual."

Richmond police would not comment on the incident other than to confirm that Mong is an officer there.

robert.crowe@chron.com