A Texas mother whose 18-year-old son drowned in Lake Ray Hubbard alleges police hung up on her when she reported him missing, as the family enlists civil rights attorney Ben Crump to demand answers about the April tragedy that left an honor roll student dead.
Mother’s Desperate Plea Ignored
Tameca Erving delivered an emotional statement at a Dallas church press conference Tuesday, describing the moment she called police for help on April 13 after her son Daniel disappeared. The high school swimmer had left behind his identification, social security card, and money at home. “When I called the police, I annoyed them and they hung up the telephone in my face,” Erving told supporters. “So just imagine, as a mother, or a parent, calling someone to help you save your child, and they hang up the telephone in your face.”
The Rowlett Police Department disputes the characterization, stating they received the call shortly after 12:30 a.m. on April 14 and responded within ten minutes. Officers remained at the home for over an hour gathering information, according to their official statement. The missing person report was completed and entered into the database at approximately 3:42 a.m., with additional documentation added later that day.
Two Charged With Evidence Tampering
Lucas Roper, 19, and a 17-year-old juvenile face charges of tampering with physical evidence after allegedly discarding Daniel’s belongings and deleting content from his cellphone. Tameca Erving called the two individuals “wolves in sheep’s clothing” and insisted they were not true friends to her son. “I’ve never met the two boys,” she said during the press conference.
Attorney Ben Crump emphasized that genuine friends would have acted differently. “A friend would not have thrown away his clothes, a friend would not have thrown away his cellphone, a friend would not have deleted his text messages,” Crump stated. He added that a real friend would have immediately told the mother if an accident had occurred, rather than leaving her searching desperately for answers.
Questions Surround Drowning Death
Daniel Erving died after jumping from a railroad bridge into Lake Ray Hubbard in the eastern Dallas suburbs with two companions. Family attorney Sean Daredia expressed skepticism about the circumstances surrounding the drowning. “Daniel Erving was an honor roll student. He was a member of his swim team. He was a strong, healthy young athlete,” Daredia told reporters. The attorney questioned how a skilled swimmer could drown while his companions simply left the scene.
The grieving mother maintains her son has only received “partial justice” and that questions remain unanswered. The case highlights tensions between families seeking answers and law enforcement procedures during critical missing person investigations involving young adults.
It’s always about discrimination. 13% of the population commits 50% of the crime in America. They have no choice. They must clothesline elderly people on the street. They must travel in packs and carjack strangers. They must be given admission advantages into colleges over more qualified applicants. They must be given welfare because they are unable to get jobs, not because of discrimination, but, because they can’t be trusted. They have been so brainwashed with the victimhood narrative.
They cannot be trusted because, no one knows when they will “go off.”
It is not, neccesarily, discrimination. My son was 18 when he was abducted in a Cleveland blizzard and made to go to an ATM. He was on his way to Indiana. The police were dismissive and said they do not go out to look for adults. He is a white kid. We were pissed, but never entered my mind that it was a racist thing, as opposed to a stupid thing.