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A Houston teen accused of slamming a mom of three into the ground and leaving her paralyzed during a robbery was reportedly heard on jailhouse phone calls confessing to the crime and ridiculing the victim.
The audio recordings of 17-year-old Joseph Harrell’s conversations were obtained by station ABC13 from a source close to the investigation after a judge made a controversial decision to slash the suspect’s bond in half to $100,000.
“We were snatching purses,” Harrell said on the jailhouse recording. “I hopped out, snatched the purse, the lady ran with the money, I grabbed her, slammed her and she was paralyzed.”
Harrell was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and robbery after being caught on camera body-slamming Nhung Truong in Houston on Feb. 13. His accused getaway driver, 19-year-old Zy’Nika Woods, was also jailed on a robbery count