Former Missouri City Police Officer Faces Charges of Intoxication Manslaughter

HOUSTON, TX -- A former Missouri City police officer has been identified as the driver of the car that hit and killed a woman on Interstate 69 over the weekend.

Former Missouri City police officer Stephen Alan Cook is charged with intoxication manslaughter after he hit a woman who was helping her step-daughter who’d run out of gas.

According to police, a woman and her children were traveling north on the Southwest freeway near Belfort Street at about 8 p.m. Saturday, when they ran out of gas and stopped on the side of the freeway.

The woman called her stepmother for help, and she came with a gas can a short time later.

The woman’s stepmother parked behind her car and was putting gas in the fuel tank, when Cook, who was driving a Mercury Grand Marqui, clipped a white van and then launched into the back of the stepmother's car, according to authorities.

When the Mercury hit the stepmother's Nissan, it slammed forward into her stepdaughter's Nissan, crushing the stepmother, who was caught between the two cars, police said.

The mother of the two children is in serious condition, but is expected to live; the 15-year-old girl was being treated for minor injuries, according to officials.

Cook was treated for minor injuries, then arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter, police said.

The driver of the white van was not hurt.

Cook is charged with intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle and two charges of intoxication assault with a vehicle, according to court documents.

Cook was previously convicted in Fort Bend County in 2012 for driving while intoxicated.

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