POLK COUNTY, Texas — A grieving Polk County mother is trying to figure out why someone would vandalize her daughter’s car after the mother of five was killed earlier this year.
Dewana Bowman tells KHOU 11 News her daughter’s blue Nissan Murano still holds good memories but it’s hard to look past the damage that was done to it.
The car was one of the few possessions Bowman had left to remember 25-year-old Jasmine Muldoon.
“It’s like one brutal bunch after another,” she said. “Seeing the way it’s smashed and so carelessly treated, it’s devastating, it’s heartbreaking.”
On May 5, Muldoon’s body was found with stab wounds in the wooded area off Highway 59 near Livingston. Just days later, her boyfriend 23-year-old De’andre Wright was arrested on a felony murder charge.
Since then, Bowman said she’s been trying to collect her daughter’s things to save them for her children.
However, tragedy struck again when a family friend went to retrieve Muldoon’s car from her home. The vehicle had been stripped, the front window was smashed, the battery was stolen and wires were ripped out.
Bowman said the car was also found on a jack, but the tires were still in place.
“It wasn’t like that when we first came to look at it. But in the few days it took to get it towed, someone got to it” she said. “It’s hard to understand why you would go to these lengths to destroy something that was left of such an amazing person.”
Bowman is now holding out hope that she can get the car fixed and gift it to Muldoon’s oldest child in a few years. She started a GoFundMe page to try and raise money for the repairs.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Here is a GoFundMe page to help Muldoon's family.
It’s just one way she plans to keep her daughter close and honor her memory.
“I come out here every morning and I talk to my baby, I promise her I’m going to do everything I can to get it fixed, I’m going to do everything I can to make sure her babies are well taken care of,” she said.