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WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 30, 2019
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Fort Bend / Southwest • Volume 43 • No. 63
Nehls’ twin brother considering run for sheriff By Landan Kuhlmann LKUHLMANN@FORTBENDSTAR.COM
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Trever Nehls (Photo from Twitter)
It’s possible there will still be a Nehls leading one of Fort Bend County’s crime-fighting offices following the next election cycle. It just wouldn’t be the one most residents have become accustomed to seeing. Last week, Fort Bend County Precinct 4 Constable Trever Nehls’ campaign team announced he would forgo another term as con-
stable to potentially make a run as the next Fort Bend County Sheriff on the Republican ticket. His twin brother Troy Nehls currently holds the sheriff position, but announced earlier this year that he would not seek another term as he considers a run for the District 22 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which Pete Olson will vacate at the end of his current term. Trever Nehls is currently serving as a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and is not expected back stateside until early 2020,
according to reports. “I am honored to help my brother while he’s serving overseas in defense of our country,” Troy Nehls said last week in a statement on behalf of his brother. “I will continue to encourage my brother to run for Sheriff of Fort Bend County. He has the skill set, experience and proven servant leadership. He would make an excellent sheriff.” The filing deadline for candidates in the 2020 elections is Dec. 9, with primaries set for March 3, 2020.
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New details emerge in area store clerk shooting From Staff Reports
Some new revelations have come to light about the events leading up to the shooting death of a Sugar Land convenience store clerk during an Aug. 31 robbery. The Sugar Land Police Department said 24-year-old Treveon James Young of Dallas is suspected of pulling the trigger in the incident, during which multiple suspects got away with nearly $1,300 according to media reports. Young is now listed among the Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers’ most wanted suspects, according to a report from the Houston Chronicle, and police previously said he may be hiding in the Houston or Dallas area. Court records say Young allegedly planned the attempted robbery, choosing that particular store due to the lack of a security window around the cash register area according to the report. On the night of the incident, officers responded to WB Food Mart at 13003 West Bellfort St. around 8:30 p.m. after customers reported a man, later identified as 63-year-old store
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A director prepares 11-year-old Harvey Baker Jr. (far right) and other members of Acapop! KIDS for a shoot. Harvey is one of 25 students who has spent the last year recording music and videos with the a cappella group, which released its album Oct. 18.(Contributed photo)
Family craft paving dream road for Sugar Land student By Landan Kuhlmann LKUHLMANN@FORTBENDSTAR.COM
Harvey Baker Jr. just wants to follow his dreams and his older sister’s footsteps. The 11-year-old Sugar Land resident has gotten a rare opportunity to advance his dream of stardom while learning from some famous names in the music industry – with some family help along the way. Baker, a sixth grader at Garcia Middle School in Sugar Land, has spent the last year recording songs and music videos as one of the newest members of Acapop! KIDS a cappella group.
Comprised of 25 students ages 10-14 and founded by Pentatonix co-founder Scott Hoying, Grammy Award-winning arranger and producer Ben Bram and Pentatonix manager Jonathan Kalter along with creative director, a cappella arranger and producer Shams Ahmed, the group partnered with Warner Records to officially launch the first two videos from their 10-song album on Oct. 18 “We’ve worked really hard on this first album and I’m excited for everyone to hear it. I still don’t believe this is happening,” Harvey said. “This is such an amazing opportunity and I’m blessed I was picked.”
Harvey said his love of music and performance was cultivated and inspired by his 20-year-old sister, Kaylah Sharve’ Baker, a member of a cappella group Citizen Queen. His road to Acapop! KIDS, however, is all his own. It began last summer with a grueling audition process. More than 1,000 students from around the country had to make it through three rounds of auditions – two by videotape performing a song of their choice, and a final in-person audition in Dallas. Harvey is involved in
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Harvey Baker Jr. backstage with his older sister Kaylah during her 2018 Christmas tour with Citizen Queen. Kaylah helped coach Harvey throughout the audition process. (Contributed photo)
FBISD to pilot campus-based mental health clinics By Landan Kuhlmann LKUHLMANN@FORTBENDSTAR.COM
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Several local schools could soon have counseling and resource centers that will be the first of their kind. Fort Bend ISD announced during an Oct. 21 board meeting that is has received a $1.5 million grant from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Criminal Justice Division to pilot
eight school-based mental health centers around district campuses within the Hightower, Marshall and Willowridge high school feeder patterns under the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (VOCA). The grant will be used to cover the cost of the mental health clinics’ startup as well as the services provided by clinic staff. It is part of the district’s restructured behavioral health services efforts, according to FBISD.
FBISD began planning for the grant following an August 2018 meeting with State Rep. Rick Miller that showcased such clinics in Austin, and applied for the grant this past February. “We will pilot these programs beginning in those feeder patterns, and then seek to expand them district-wide over the course of the next three years,” FBISD Director of Behavioral Health and Wellness Steve Shiels said during the meeting.
All FBISD students, parents and staff who have been victims of crimes – domestic violence, witnesses to a crime, those impacted by crime and victims of bullying and more – will be eligible to receive free counseling and therapeutic services from board-licensed clinicians when the centers open next year.
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