Jeremy Carnes<\/a> was discovered on Oct. 24 under an overpass in the Settegast area. Houston police said his body had been set on fire and that foul play was suspected. Nearly two weeks later, investigators have not announced any arrests or shared new details about what may have happened.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was a gut-wrenching rage that somebody did that to my brother,\u201d said Carnes\u2019 sister, Commilla Kidd.<\/p>\n
Carnes, who had experienced homelessness for years, was known in the neighborhood near a Valero gas station as a kind man often seen with his dog, Cross.<\/p>\n
That dog became a focus of the family\u2019s search for closure in the days after his death. Family friend Shastie Morris said she felt called to help find the missing pup.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought, man, I hope someone finds that dog,\u201d Morris said. \u201cAnd God said to me, \u2018You. You don\u2019t have anything to do. Today\u2019s your day off.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
After searching streets and homeless camps for hours, Morris found Cross with another man who said Carnes had asked him to look after the dog.<\/p>\n
\u201cJeremy had told him to watch the dog when he went to work in a truck \u2014 and Jeremy never came back,\u201d Morris said.<\/p>\n
Kidd drove from Kansas to Houston this week to retrieve Cross. The dog will soon go to Carnes\u2019 22-year-old daughter as a keepsake to remember her father.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe named her Cross because a man once gave Jeremy a penny with a cross cut into it and told him, \u2018Keep this with you and stay safe,\u2019\u201d Kidd said.<\/p>\n
While the search for Cross ended in relief, the investigation into Carnes\u2019 death remains open. His family says they won\u2019t stop seeking justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still have no answers as to what happened to Jeremy,\u201d Kidd said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Houston Police Department or speak anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477.<\/p>\n
Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at newstips@khou.com<\/a> or call 713-521-4310 and include the best way to reach you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family friend felt called to search Houston streets and homeless camps for hours. What she found became…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":361379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-361378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115506528004541703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}