Remember when Rice professor and bicyclist Bob Stein used to turn up in the local media all the time, as an expert on everything?
Although he’s not really an expert on everything, Quanell the Tenth also seems to turn up all the time in media reports, for reasons that have never been entirely clear. A bemused reader passed along this latest instance from a Chronicle story:
Led by community activist Quanell X, residents of a southwest Houston apartment complex began a grass-roots search Sunday to catch a serial rapist.
Raina Williams, 34, said she wishes someone would come forward with information that would lead to the arrest of the suspect, who police believe has attacked at least four women since September.
“It will be nice if he is caught because it’s scary, very scary. Sometimes you don’t have a person to meet you at the bus stop,” said Williams, who lives with her 11-year-old daughter, 22-year-old sister and her sister’s 2-year-old daughter.
Houston police have said they believe the same man has sexually assaulted three women in the 9300 block of Dairy View and one in the 9400 block of Dairy Ashford. They believe the man lives in the area.
Quanell, who along with four other men passed out fliers with composite sketches of the suspect Sunday, said the community wants police and area apartment complexes to increase security. “And we are saying to the rapist, it would be wise if you turn yourself in because if you don’t, when the community catches you, we will whip your rusty, raggedy behind,” Quanell said.
Allrighty then!
