KATY, Texas — A 22-year-old woman riding her bicycle to work was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Katy, in Harris County, on Sunday night, November 8, and a 61-year-old driver has been arrested and charged after deputies say she left the scene, spoke to an off-duty deputy at a nearby gas station, and then left again in another vehicle, leaving her damaged SUV behind. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said Chinwe Keisha Egbo was riding southbound in the 4100 block of Pitts Road, near Clay Road, at about 10 p.m. when an SUV struck her. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Deputies identified the driver as Trianna Denise Walker, 61. She has been charged with failure to stop and render aid — the Texas charge for leaving the scene of a crash. Investigators reported no apparent signs of intoxication, and the sheriff's office said Walker was cooperating with investigators after her arrest. The charge is an allegation: what a court ultimately decides about that night on Pitts Road will rest on the investigation now under way, and Walker is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
How deputies found the driver
The sequence the sheriff's office describes is unusual, and it is the reason an arrest came the same night. An off-duty Harris County sheriff's deputy spotted the damaged SUV at a gas station near the crash scene. The driver told that deputy she had hit something in the road. A deputy who went to the roadway found Egbo unresponsive in the road and performed CPR, but emergency crews pronounced her dead at the scene. By then, the driver had left the gas station in another vehicle — picked up by someone else — leaving the damaged SUV behind. Deputies found Walker at a nearby residence and took her into custody there.
Source: Katy Magazine — Katy woman killed during hit-and-run; driver arrested (Nov 9, 2026)
That chain of events leaves investigators with two files, not one. The first is the crash itself: how a southbound bicyclist and an SUV came together on Pitts Road at 10 p.m. on a Sunday — lighting, speed, lane position and what each person could see. The second is everything that happened afterwards: the stop at the gas station, the conversation with the off-duty deputy, the decision to leave in another vehicle, and the abandoned SUV. Deputies have said they are also looking into the person who picked Walker up from the gas station, to determine whether that person will face charges — a decision that had not been announced as of Monday's reporting.
Texas law requires a driver involved in a crash to stop, check whether anyone is hurt, and render aid — and leaving the scene of a crash involving a death is treated as a serious felony offence. The charge filed here, failure to stop and render aid, does not by itself decide how the crash happened; it concerns what the driver allegedly did after it. Investigators separate the two questions, and so does this report: the collision's cause remains under investigation, and no finding on it has been announced.
A ride to work, at night, on a suburban road
Katy Magazine reported that Egbo was riding to her job at a local convenience store when she was struck — the ordinary, necessary trip of a young worker on a Sunday night. Pitts Road, in the Katy area west of Houston, is a suburban corridor of subdivisions, stores and gas stations, carrying fast traffic past the neighbourhoods it serves; Clay Road is one of its main cross streets. For the many Harris County residents who cycle because work, cost or choice puts them on a bicycle after dark, roads like Pitts Road are the route — there is often no separate path. Nothing in the sheriff's office account released so far speaks to reflectors, lights or the bicycle's equipment, and this report does not speculate on them; those are among the details investigators document in a fatal-crash file.
Why this reaches the Punjabi community in Houston
The Houston area holds one of the largest Punjabi and Indian communities in Texas, spread through Katy, Sugar Land, Cypress and the Energy Corridor, and its members work the same convenience stores, gas stations and late shifts that frame this story — many of them commuting at exactly the hours Egbo was riding. A young woman killed on a routine ride to a store job is the kind of local loss those households recognise immediately, and the hit-and-run allegation at its centre is why the sheriff's office account has been followed closely across the area since Sunday night.
What happens next
Walker, charged with failure to stop and render aid, will move through the Harris County court process — a first court appearance and a bond decision are the next formal steps, neither of which had been reported as of Monday evening. Investigators must still complete the crash reconstruction, decide whether any additional charges arise from the collision itself, and announce whether the person who picked Walker up from the gas station will be charged. The sheriff's office investigation remains open, and Egbo's family — who have lost a 22-year-old on an ordinary ride to work — are the people at the centre of whatever comes next. Awaaz Punjab will update this report when court or sheriff's office developments are released.