“She’s the type of mother who would do anything for us,” Hernandez’s 14-year-old daughter, Briza Armenta, told the Houston Chronicle. Erica has covered a wide array of stories all over Central and South Texas. Hernandez worked at Community Health Choice, in the insurance department. Erica Hernandez is an Emmy award-winning journalist with more than 10 years of experience in the broadcast news business. “‘Is she coming back? When is she coming’?” “I mean, he was still asking for her just a few days ago,” her sister Ashley Hernandez told local outlet KHOU said of the toddler. She is the mother of three children, the youngest being a 3-year-old boy. Hernandez's family do not know why she would be in Pearland, which is about 15 miles away from Houston. “Our condolences go out to the family as they go through a painful time of waiting for a positive identification on one individual that was found inside the vehicle,” Deese said. They asked the dive team to search the man-made lake as a result. Houston’s missing persons unit was canvassing the area when they noticed what “was consistent with a vehicle striking the curb” before entering the water.
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It’s not clear whether or not investigators believe that foul play is involved. The body has been sent to the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office for a positive investigation. That SUV matches the make and model of the vehicle that Hernandez was last seen driving. The Houston Police Department announced at a Tuesday press conference that they have recovered a black GMC Acadia inside a lake in Pearland. In the search for a missing mother, Texas investigators have discovered a body inside an SUV that was submerged in a lake.Įrica Hernandez, 40, vanished on April 18 after she left a friend’s home in Houston.