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were banding together

1:00

for maximum impact

1:04

because the all Democratic criminal

1:06

court judiciary. There

1:08

is one Republican now. Greg Abbott was

1:10

able to rep to appoint a replacement

1:12

or judge that step down, but basically up until

1:15

very recently. You can say the entire judiciary,

1:17

which means you can say it's the democrats who've been doing

1:19

this, have

1:20

been releasing murderers to commit more

1:22

murders. So

1:24

I asked Brad Gloria,

1:26

our Baron of Booking to track

1:28

down Chuck Cook, get him on the air, who's behind

1:30

this organization? Who are these people? Why are they doing

1:32

this? I

1:34

did not realize at the time that Chuck cooked

1:36

was the son

1:39

of the woman who was murdered last year, eighty

1:41

year old woman, as she's coming

1:43

out of CVS on a Saturday morning.

1:47

terrible story. So

1:48

he and a lot of other people said enough is

1:50

enough. We're not gonna stand for this any

1:52

longer. We're not gonna sit idly by

1:54

and just pray the rosary and hope that the

1:56

election turns out the way we hope it will.

1:59

We're

1:59

going to get

1:59

involved. We're gonna tell our stories. We're gonna

2:02

make people look us in the face.

2:05

and see what we're suffering through the loss

2:07

of our loved ones needlessly. Well,

2:10

that was the first spot. and here

2:12

was the second spot that came out, and you may

2:14

have heard it on these very airwaves.

2:17

My name is Lourdes Modena, and my

2:19

mother was Martha Modena. She

2:21

was a good woman and a good mother.

2:23

And she was brutally murdered last

2:25

year in a parking lot. Her accused

2:28

killer had already been charged

2:30

with capital murder. He was

2:32

able to kill my mother because a Democrat

2:34

judge had let him out on bail. I'm

2:36

a Democrat myself, but life is

2:39

more important than a political party. So

2:41

I decided to do something. I joined

2:43

Stop Houston Murders. These Democrat

2:45

judges have created a revolving door.

2:48

They let even violent suspects out

2:50

of jail and back on the streets. Their

2:52

policies had led to the murder of

2:54

nearly two hundred innocent people.

2:57

family, friends, and neighbors.

2:59

We all pay the price for Democrat

3:02

judges deadly catch and release policies.

3:04

So I'm asking

3:05

you, please, restore

3:07

law in order to our city, vote

3:09

out all Democrat judges,

3:12

Political ad paid for bystop Houston

3:14

Motors Chuck Cook Treasurer.

3:18

Flores

3:18

Modena is our guest. Flores?

3:22

Yes. Hi. Good

3:23

morning. First of all, thank you

3:25

for being bold enough to step out

3:28

from anonymity and step

3:30

into the public eye. It's not easy

3:32

to do for most people. And from

3:34

what I've heard based on

3:36

question I asked of some of people who've been involved

3:38

since you got involved or just before you got involved,

3:40

this was not easy for you to do.

3:45

Right. It's it's not Tell

3:48

me what happened to

3:50

your mother. Tell me about that day.

3:54

Well, it was

3:57

III believe it was a Thursday,

3:59

September twenty third

4:02

last year. She

4:04

and I visited each other

4:06

regularly, especially in the mornings for

4:09

breakfast. and she wanted

4:11

to

4:11

come over to home right now. Oh, that you got me

4:13

there. What what was breakfast?

4:17

breakfast was for her.

4:19

It was getting something from

4:20

McDonald's. She she

4:23

she loved their

4:24

biscuits. She loved their coffee. She loved

4:26

it very much. And I would

4:29

sometimes cook something for breakfast here,

4:30

but Like because she really like McDonald.

4:33

What

4:33

would you like? Like, it was

4:35

Her

4:35

regular was a

4:37

sausage biscuit with

4:39

cheese and a small coffee.

4:41

Do y'all

4:44

live together? And she totaled you.

4:46

No. We didn't. She married.

4:48

I have

4:49

now I'm a three year old toddler.

4:52

So I have my own house, but we

4:54

live we live fifteen ten

4:56

minutes away maybe. That's that

4:58

is the reason why we spent a lot of time

5:00

together and really hung out a

5:02

lot. Was she by herself? She she

5:04

lived with my father Oh, okay. The

5:06

when

5:06

this happened yes. When this happened, she

5:09

was by herself, but she lived with my father.

5:11

My father happened to be out

5:13

of the country at that time that this

5:15

tragedy happened.

5:16

Okay. Alright. So on that day, I'm

5:18

sorry.

5:20

Right. On that day, she

5:22

told me that she was gonna go by the bank

5:24

real quick. She didn't tell me she

5:26

was gonna get

5:27

off or anything. And then she told me and then

5:29

I'm gonna go and grab some McDonald's and

5:31

head over to your house. I told her it was

5:33

fine.

5:34

and I got up and everything

5:36

started getting my my baby ready,

5:39

my toddler. And I

5:41

noticed she was taking a very long time,

5:43

which was very unusual for her. She

5:45

she was always very punchy. She would

5:47

tell you she was gonna be there at the same

5:49

time, and she she was there.

5:52

And I just thought maybe she had

5:54

gone behind with something at the bank or

5:56

something and

5:57

decided to call her to let her

5:59

know,

5:59

hey, forget about McDonald's. I'll put

6:02

something here for breakfast for both of us.

6:05

But when I when I

6:07

made that call, it was

6:09

in her answering her

6:11

cell phone at

6:12

the other line. It was

6:14

an employee from McDonald's.

6:17

I'm sorry. It was very distraught

6:20

and

6:21

stressed. I could tone her voice and immediately

6:23

I mean, as soon as someone else answered

6:25

that wasn't her. I I knew something

6:28

was not right. And

6:30

then this person, the employee asked

6:32

me,

6:32

who are you, who

6:34

And I and I said, I'm I

6:36

told her my name and I told her, she's

6:38

like, are you are you her friend? Are you

6:41

I'm like, no. I'm her

6:41

daughter.

6:43

And and that's when

6:45

she told me your mom and I think she

6:47

was to start herself. She didn't even know how

6:49

to tell me and she just said your mom

6:51

your mom. And that was like, what happened? And what happened

6:53

to my mom, it seemed like

6:55

I couldn't get the words out fast

6:57

enough from her. And and she said all she

6:59

said was he took her purse

7:02

and And when he she said that

7:04

it's I knew something

7:06

very bad had gone wrong.

7:08

And and I said, how is she

7:10

where is she? And she's like, she was ran

7:12

over. In my mind, I thought, okay.

7:15

If she got ran over, like,

7:18

she didn't even say I don't honestly, I don't

7:20

think she even said right now where she just said she

7:22

got hit by a car. In my mind,

7:24

I thought it's

7:25

a McDonald's. I was like, how fast can

7:27

a car go

7:28

in a McDonald's? So I thought

7:30

maybe she got here, but it's not it's

7:33

not something, you know, that I should worry

7:35

a lot too a lot. And I told her

7:37

and she said, don't

7:38

worry. She's still alive.

7:40

but they're taking her in ambulance right

7:43

now. So I got her as the

7:45

paramedics where were they going, and

7:47

they told me the hospital

7:49

believe it was been top.

7:52

So I hung up with her, and

7:54

and I just told her to hold her

7:56

cell phone and I immediately

7:59

got a hold of my

7:59

brother and then my sister.

8:02

And my brother

8:04

just drove by my house, picked me up,

8:06

we went directly to Bend Top to Luke for her.

8:08

When

8:10

we got there, my sister was already

8:12

there because she she works close

8:14

to Bend Top. she was able to get

8:17

there faster than we did. And when

8:19

we got there, they pulled us all

8:21

three of us in a in a room full

8:23

of doctors. in

8:25

in my mind, III still

8:27

thought I remember thinking,

8:29

why are so many

8:30

doctors? you know,

8:31

but in my mind, I thought, well,

8:34

maybe there's a surgery going on

8:36

and there's been complications and

8:38

and then they they each

8:39

presented their self, and they said, we have a

8:42

chaplain here. And in my mind, it still

8:44

didn't click. I guess, I was

8:46

like a chaplain that, like, I

8:48

would why why it's app

8:49

that meant And

8:51

then they started going over all the description

8:53

of what had

8:54

happened. They told us that my mom was in

8:56

an ambulance and that by the time she

8:58

arrived at the hospital, she was she

9:00

already had a low pulse

9:02

and that they

9:04

tried to do everything. They could

9:06

to

9:07

save her.

9:09

because they they

9:10

couldn't do anything to work

9:12

her. It

9:15

was it

9:17

was it's it's been

9:19

a hard

9:21

ping

9:21

in my life to hear.

9:24

My world

9:27

my world just shattered and

9:29

broke.

9:33

Hi.

9:33

Hold on just a moment, please. They're

9:35

at their borders.

9:37

The Michael

9:42

Berry Show. Police

9:45

clap. Please, please, please.

9:47

Before the win.

9:50

Nordisk Medina is our

9:52

guest. Nordisk I'll just let you pick

9:54

up exactly where you left off.

9:58

Thank you. as

10:00

I was saying, we got the news at

10:02

the hospital and it was just

10:04

unbelievable. I remember I stayed

10:06

quiet. It's like

10:08

my mind was trying to

10:11

accept what what I had just heard.

10:13

I think I was in shock. I

10:16

remember my sisters started

10:18

crying and crying and I think my

10:20

bread was the same as I was because we were

10:22

both quiet. And

10:25

they asked us if we were if

10:27

we wanted to be alone and we said

10:29

yes and I remember

10:31

standing in that room with my other two

10:33

siblings and just trying

10:36

to figure out what we

10:38

had just heard. Like, we didn't know if

10:40

we we we could

10:42

not believe it. And

10:45

and then came, you

10:47

know, then came, how

10:49

are we gonna tell our father?

10:51

Because he was not here at

10:53

that time, and he's diabetic.

10:55

So he has that health issue to deal

10:57

with. And we

10:59

wanted to figure out how to bring him back

11:02

from – at that time he was in

11:04

Mexico, how to bring him back from

11:06

Mexico by himself. We

11:08

didn't want this to cause

11:10

anything bad in his health.

11:12

So we

11:13

try to figure out who to tell first,

11:16

how to do it and

11:17

I remember my

11:19

brother called my cousins in Mexico

11:21

and broke the news to

11:23

them.

11:24

they too, of course, could not believe

11:27

it. I

11:27

mean, it was just so unexpected.

11:31

and

11:31

they

11:32

helped us to figure out how to

11:35

how to get my

11:37

dad in a a system

11:39

of transportation, a bus to come

11:41

back to

11:41

Houston. We

11:43

brought him

11:44

with a with a big lie, and we

11:46

had to tell him that

11:47

she had been brought

11:50

that they took her purse and

11:52

that she got

11:52

hit by a car, but that

11:54

she was

11:55

still alive. We had to say

11:57

that. Otherwise, we didn't know how he was going

11:59

to

11:59

react you know,

12:02

refer his blood sugar not his

12:05

spike. So

12:07

that's that's how he came back.

12:09

he came back thinking that she was still

12:11

alive and that she

12:13

was

12:13

only in the hospital having complications.

12:17

So

12:17

he was calling this on his way

12:20

home every so often. How's

12:22

your mother doing? How's your mother doing? How's your mother doing? He

12:24

kept continuing? telling lies

12:26

because that that that was the

12:28

only way to make sure that he got

12:30

here

12:30

safe.

12:32

So when he finally did get here, we

12:35

all went to pick him up and

12:37

and I think that right there immediately

12:39

was assigned to him that something wasn't right

12:41

because it it was not our

12:43

norm for all of us to go pick him up

12:45

whenever he came back from somewhere

12:47

else. It was just usually one

12:49

one of us. So

12:50

he said, wow, that's a miracle. All of

12:52

you guys are here, like, what's going

12:55

on. And we just said, nothing, you

12:57

know, we just we just wanted to come and

12:59

and be all here for you. And

13:01

then he's like,

13:03

well, I wanna go see your mother.

13:06

That's

13:06

the first thing he he said and

13:08

and that's when we had to break it down

13:11

for him. And, thank god, my

13:13

my sister was smart enough to have

13:15

a a coke on her hand because

13:16

that's what we give

13:19

him if, you know, if his blood sugar

13:21

goes down immediately.

13:23

And and he had to use it and

13:25

you

13:26

know, he he was in this belief

13:28

and started

13:30

crying and he's like, how how did

13:32

this happen? And we

13:34

had to retell the story of how

13:36

it happened.

13:39

We all drove back home

13:42

to my parents' house And

13:45

it that was the first time that

13:47

I stepped into their house

13:48

without her being there.

13:50

and it just it fell

13:53

horrible. It fell horrible. Was it

13:55

an an emptiness and hollowness?

13:59

and we

13:59

went straight to her bedroom,

14:02

and I remember we all hugged.

14:04

My dad just plummeted

14:06

to bed. where

14:08

she used to sleep.

14:11

And

14:11

then we all hugged and cried

14:13

together.

14:13

That was the first time that

14:15

that we

14:16

all cried together for

14:19

her.

14:23

It's

14:23

been very hard after that.

14:26

You

14:26

know, my aunt, I have two aunts

14:29

that live in Mexico's sister her

14:31

sisters they they were given

14:33

the news too

14:34

because they

14:35

both are elderly people.

14:38

And

14:39

They they're

14:42

older than her. So, you know, every

14:44

we all in our heads in our

14:46

heads, we always think I guess

14:48

that's just how

14:50

usually it goes

14:51

and it's common sense to think that

14:54

way that the older are

14:56

always gonna go before us. Mhmm.

14:58

because it's not like it's supposed to be sure.

15:00

And that's how it's supposed to

15:02

be exactly So was a hard it

15:04

was a hard thing for them

15:07

also, and they

15:09

were able to count to count

15:11

thank God and they were here

15:13

with us for the for the viewing,

15:15

for the funeral. And

15:17

and

15:18

my my father I

15:20

I remember when it happened,

15:22

was a Thursday morning. It

15:24

was around, I

15:25

wanna say, ten twenty. I'm sure

15:27

it happened because I still remember

15:30

when I called, it was around ten thirty.

15:32

And

15:34

then we had that whole Thursday

15:37

to ourselves to kind

15:39

of try to absorb what

15:41

had happened. But my

15:42

father got here got back to

15:45

Houston

15:45

on the

15:47

next day, I believe.

15:48

So by that day, we were already

15:50

getting contacted by the news.

15:53

Our friends and family had found out

15:55

they were all coming to visit and give their condolences.

15:58

So he really didn't

15:59

have time to absorb

16:02

all of this in.

16:05

It was very, very hard those

16:08

first

16:08

weeks. I'm

16:10

glad and thankful

16:12

that we had so much support

16:14

from friends and family. Everybody was

16:16

so supportive. Everybody

16:18

tried to show us that they were

16:20

there for us. but

16:23

I never never thought I would

16:25

lose my mother

16:26

so soon and in this way.

16:28

it

16:30

was very

16:33

unexpected and I still live with it.

16:35

I still

16:35

suffer the consequences it's

16:38

it's very hard. It

16:40

it took a

16:41

lot a lot of months for me

16:43

to accept that this

16:45

had happened.

16:48

especially because I think from all

16:50

three of us at at that

16:52

time that she that

16:54

this happened, I I guess

16:56

I can say I was closer to her

16:58

because I right now, I'm

17:00

a stay at home mom.

17:01

And

17:03

I was me

17:06

and her were visiting each other a lot,

17:08

and she was spending time with

17:09

her friends. Laura, this

17:12

hold with me for just a moment. I wanna

17:14

get to mine and came to my

17:16

attention and that is because the

17:18

man who killed your mother was out

17:20

on bond another capital

17:22

murder case. And Reuters'

17:24

Medina said, Enough and she

17:26

has come forward. Talk cleanup.

17:30

Our guests.

17:34

That awful moment. Look,

17:36

we're all going to lose our parents

17:39

at some point. That's

17:42

just going to happen and we know

17:44

it. but we expect that happen naturally.

17:46

We don't want

17:48

them murdered. And

17:51

then,

17:51

Lord, this after

17:53

you find out that Andrew

17:56

Williams and his accomplice ran

17:59

over your mother and killed her and left

18:02

her there. for

18:03

her purse of

18:05

all things that

18:08

Andrew Williams was out on

18:10

bond from another capital murder case

18:12

when he did this.

18:17

how did I

18:20

mean, you're already emotionally

18:22

distraught, but how did what

18:24

goes through your mind at that moment?

18:27

Wow. So

18:31

much rage and so much anger.

18:33

I was so angry

18:35

all of us were,

18:38

and I could not believe

18:41

how someone was out on bond on

18:44

capital murder. Like,

18:46

how how does that happen? That doesn't

18:49

even make sense. It does not

18:51

make sense in my head. So

18:54

I

18:54

wanted to know how that had happened,

18:56

and we started informing

18:59

ourselves, we started investigating

19:02

who was behind all of this.

19:05

And we learned who the judge was

19:07

and and why he and how he was

19:09

out on bond, and we were

19:11

enraged. I we

19:14

were angry. at that I

19:16

I felt that I had to

19:18

raise my voice because

19:22

I honestly before this happened with my

19:24

mother, I did not know

19:26

how much of a

19:26

problem this was in our in our

19:29

county. I was not

19:30

aware. when

19:32

this happened, I start it's

19:34

like my eyes I felt

19:36

like my eyes were open to a

19:39

a huge problem

19:41

that I did not know existed,

19:44

and and

19:45

I knew that there was so many people

19:47

like me and Harris

19:48

County that we that we're not aware what was

19:50

going on. So I felt

19:52

like it was my

19:54

duty,

19:54

my responsibility, and honor to

19:56

my mother, to raise my voice.

19:59

to tell my

20:00

story so people could

20:03

start to

20:03

notice and and hear what

20:05

was going on in our county with

20:08

all these judges because it was

20:10

not just

20:10

a judge that let my mom out. I I

20:12

started hearing about other cases and

20:15

I And I was just thinking

20:17

how can this be happening and someone

20:19

is not saying something about it? How

20:21

is it nonwarrin the old And

20:24

and after that,

20:26

the the crime continued. I think it's

20:28

been has been escalating for

20:30

the past year. it's

20:31

like the daily bread for

20:35

criminals. And

20:36

that's when I decided

20:38

to join this pack stop houston

20:40

murders dot com.

20:43

I was drawn

20:45

to them because they show a true

20:48

empathy and

20:48

concern for what's happening or

20:50

for for what's going on with

20:52

all these judges letting

20:55

criminals out on bond. and

20:57

they had the same view that I did in

20:59

the same interest. They

21:02

basically

21:02

want to get the message

21:04

out to the public to

21:07

let

21:07

them know what's going on and that

21:09

as citizens, we can do

21:11

something about it, and that

21:14

is through our vote. So when

21:16

I when I knew about this pack

21:18

and I realized that we had

21:20

the common interest, I decided to

21:22

join them and to

21:25

use my story, to use my mother's

21:28

story, to get

21:28

the word out there about what's going on because

21:30

if if anything, my

21:31

mom was one of those persons that would

21:33

not state quiet she was the kind of

21:36

person to do and say the right

21:38

thing when they had to be

21:40

said without being afraid.

21:42

And not only because of that, but

21:45

because I have a family and

21:47

I still have family members

21:49

too of

21:49

my mom's age, and I certainly

21:51

do not want to go through this

21:54

again. I don't want anybody else to

21:56

go through this again.

21:57

It's It's

21:59

just

21:59

crazy how this catch and release

22:02

a

22:02

reform that Democrats are

22:05

using. How in the world did they even

22:07

think in first place that

22:09

that was going to work. And then just

22:12

describe

22:12

us as collateral victims.

22:16

like,

22:16

really, that's what we are

22:17

to you. You didn't I mean,

22:20

to me is, like, we're we

22:23

you know, unfortunately, we voted for

22:25

you. We put you in that position. And

22:28

I just feel like this like,

22:31

lately criminals have more rights than

22:33

citizens do. And we are the ones that

22:35

pay taxes, and we are

22:38

the ones

22:38

that are doing their the right thing.

22:40

We're we're not out there trying to

22:42

rob or kill anyone.

22:44

No. This let me ask you. are

22:45

that if they're tough. in

22:47

in your testimony

22:49

that has now been broadcast

22:51

across the radio and has received

22:53

a lot of attention. you

22:57

say, I'm a Democrat, but

23:00

these Democrats are letting these

23:02

killers out and I care

23:04

more about what's right than

23:06

I do party. And

23:08

so I'm asking you to vote out

23:11

these Democrats. How hard was that for you

23:13

to do and say?

23:16

Honestly,

23:16

it wasn't

23:19

hard. It wasn't hard. I

23:21

I did consider myself a Democrat for

23:23

a very long time. Since

23:25

this has happened, it has made

23:27

me question my belief It has

23:29

made me question how much

23:32

I know about the system, how much I know,

23:34

I really know about who I'm choosing

23:36

and the leaders and everything. it

23:38

hasn't been hard because

23:40

I I truly want a change.

23:42

I want a change. I want

23:45

strong leadership back in back

23:47

in office. I want people and

23:49

leaders that are not afraid to

23:51

implement the right laws, to

23:52

do the right thing, to

23:54

keep all of us safe. I

23:56

don't want leaders that are in the side

23:58

of criminals

23:59

off

23:59

being soft on them and and thinking,

24:02

oh,

24:02

they deserve another chance. Oh, they deserve

24:05

another opportunity. these criminals

24:07

have shown once, I

24:09

mean, over and over again. They're not

24:11

interesting in making a change.

24:13

And these Democrats have

24:16

already

24:16

been in office

24:17

for, I don't know, four years.

24:19

And what have they done for

24:22

us? I mean, I started looking and all of it

24:24

and it just -- it doesn't look

24:26

right. It wasn't hard for me to say

24:28

that because I truly want a

24:30

change. I

24:30

want strong leadership back in our office,

24:33

and I want Houston to be the way

24:34

it was before

24:36

all of this started happening.

24:39

And like I said, that is the reason why

24:41

I joined stopped Houston

24:44

murders because I saw that as the

24:46

common ground. that we

24:47

all have the same

24:49

interest. Laura,

24:51

those We can't we can't bring

24:53

back your sweet mother.

24:55

But maybe you

24:57

can save somebody else's.

24:59

Thank you for

25:01

being willing to step forward and tell your

25:04

story.

25:07

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25:09

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25:11

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