- A Texas man took a ball game too seriously and shot his friend.
There’s such a thing as being a sore loser. And there’s this guy.
Police officers in Dallas, TX, recently arrested one Cameron Hogg and charged him with murder. Hogg, 31, stands accused of shooting to death another Dallas resident, Asia Womack.
And it appears to be all because he lost to Womack in basketball.
After the alleged murder, Hogg went on the run. It took police 11 days to track him down and finally arrest him.
This wasn’t just a senseless shooting of a total stranger over a game gone wrong. According to people who knew the victim, Hogg and Womack were long-time friends.
Yet apparently that friendship wasn’t worth one lost basketball game.
Fatal Words
The fateful game happened on October 3. On that day, Womack and Hogg played a pickup game of basketball at T.G. Terry Park in South Dallas.
Perhaps Hogg challenged somebody too skilled for him to handle. According to Fox 4, the 21-year-old Womack was a basketball “whiz,” having played in the Madison High School team when she was younger.
According to Womack’s family, there was some trash talk during the game. But isn’t there always when friends go head to head?
In the end, Womack beat Hogg in the game. But it seems the man didn’t take the loss too well.
Witnesses said that Womack and Hogg got into an argument following the game. We couldn’t find reports on what exactly went down, but it was enough for Hogg to storm out of the park, taking his children and brother with him.
After the game, Womack went to her home near the park. She and another friend set up a TV outside and sat down to watch football.
According to the friend, Hogg returned some time later in his truck. He got out and was still visibly angry.
The friend said Womack stood up from her chair, ready to confront Hogg again. But she didn’t have time for words.
According to the testimony, Hogg aimed a handgun at Womack without saying anything and shot her twice in the chest. As she fell down, Hogg fired twice more.
He then got back in his truck and sped away. His escape was caught on the security footage from a nearby store.
Forgiveness Has Its Limits
After the shooting, Hogg disappeared. While the police were trying to find him, Womack’s family was trying to come to terms with her death.
Hogg has a criminal record stretching back more than a decade. According to reports, he has been charged with various crimes from robbery to aggravated assault and “family violence.”
But Womack’s family said their daughter was willing to look past all that and had been Hogg’s friend.
“He’d pull up to my house, pick her up. They’d ride together, eat food together, take his phone calls, give him money in jail. And you turn around and kill her?” said Asia’s mother Andrea Womack.
“This was supposed to be a friend of Asia’s. She’s eaten with the man. She’s fed him, and he turned on her and killed her in a vicious way.”
Womack’s aunt, Juanita Smith, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth that the family was having trouble coming to terms with the killing because it was “senseless.” She said she couldn’t understand why anyone would shoot a person over a basketball game.
The family’s pastor, John Delley of the Faith Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, confirmed that the shooting took place after Hogg “couldn’t accept defeat.”
“This is so senseless. You become embarrassed basically because a female beat you in basketball,” the pastor told Fox 4.
“I believe in forgiveness, but justice needs to be served.”
‘He Took Our Joy’
On October 11, after Womack had been on the lam for a week, Dallas police issued an arrest warrant for him. On October 20, Hogg was arrested and charged with murder.
Womack’s family says the arrest brought at least a degree of relief to them.
“When I got that call, I was full of joy this morning. Hadn’t had joy in a while. But with him being captured, I am full of joy today,” said Andrea Womack.
But, of course, the arrest won’t bring her daughter back. Andrea Womack says the family has irrevocably lost something with her daughter.
“Won’t have the love. She is not here anymore. He took our joy,” she said.
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