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Warrant Issued for 71-Year-Old Accused of Machete Road-Rage Threats in Harris County

Video recorded by the victim guides the search.

Overview

  • Precinct 4 identified Lawrence Taylor, 71, as the suspect and obtained a warrant for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and deputies are asking for tips as they search for him.
  • The confrontation, which unfolded Thursday near Grant Road and Champion Forest Drive in northwest Harris County, began as the woman waited at a red light on her way to work.
  • The driver's video shows a man step from a Ford F-150, take a machete from the truck, knock on her window, and order her to get out.
  • Charging documents quote the suspect threatening to cut off the woman's head before he returned to his truck and drove away.
  • Records show Taylor pleaded guilty in 1995 in an injury-to-a-child case with deferred adjudication and is currently out on bail in a marijuana case; his bond in the new case is set at $50,000.