Harris County, Texas, stabbing victim Chris Dang, final moments of his death in family driveway caught on camera; Rafielle Andrews arrested

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A grieving Texas family is seeking answers about why someone stabbed their son to death as he returned from a job interview.

Investigators said shortly after 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Rafielle Andrews was standing on a street in northern Harris County.

Authorities said the 40-year-old man was holding a toy in one hand and a knife in the other. Andrews allegedly tried to stab a woman, but the knife was covered in a sheath and she suffered only a bruise.

Investigators believe Andrews then flagged down Chris Dang, who was driving home from a job interview. When Dang rolled down the window to see what Andrews needed, investigators believe that's when Andrews attacked.

Wounded, Dang, who was bleeding, managed to drive the block to his family's home. His mother, Hoa Duong, was just outside. She saw her son in distress.

“He had the window down and he was like that,” she said, pointing to her own chest. “'Mom, call 911,' and I'm like, 'What happened?'”

Dang was stabbed in the chest. The family immediately called 911.

Duong's cellphone records show the initial call was made at 4:44 p.m. Chris' brother, Huan, described following dispatchers' instructions as he tried to save his brother.

“She was like, 'Move the car. Put him on the ground.' And we were scared and we reclined the seat,” Huan Dang recalled. “Eventually my father put him down.”

The family's distressing moments, from the time Chris managed to drive home to the arrival of paramedics, were captured on their surveillance camera. In it, you can see paramedics trying to save Chris' life shortly after 5 p.m. He was pronounced dead at 5:17 p.m.

“It's tragic. There's no other way to look at it,” said Rodney Wallace, a neighbor and former member of the subdivision's homeowners' association. “He didn't do anything to deserve what he got. He stopped to help someone.”

Wallace added that during his tenure on the HOA board, the response time of law enforcement and paramedics was a neighborhood “pet peeve.”

Harris County records show an ambulance was dispatched to Dang's home at 5 p.m. and arrived at 5:03 p.m.

Investigators were able to arrest the suspect immediately. They do not know the motive, but say he has a long criminal record and proven mental health problems.

Authorities believe he regularly visited relatives residing in the same subdivision. The Dang family believes that if it wasn't their son, Andrews would have attacked another neighbor.

“He killed my son. He suffered from mental illness. He would have killed someone else later,” Duong said.

The Dang family said they may eventually investigate the response time issue. Their video recordings show an extended time between the mother's first call to 911 and the arrival of paramedics.

But for now, they want to focus on planning the funeral and burying their son. Chris Dang was 49 years old and one of six siblings.

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