Woman accused of leaving grandson alone in car while she gambled for hours

HOUSTON -- A woman is accused of leaving her grandchild alone in a car for hours while she gambled in Texas.

Authorities say a 3-year-old boy was left alone in a car with the windows down outside a game room for a few hours Thursday afternoon. Workers say the grandmother sat right by the door and kept looking out at her grandson who was left alone in a car parked just a few feet from the front door.

Everiel Johnson did not have much to say after being reunited with her young son. Maybe that's because her own mother is accused of leaving the boy in a car while playing 8 liners in a Texas game room.

"He's OK, he's good. He'll be OK, I don't want to be on TV right now," she said.

Authorities say 54-year-old Gudonna Johnson drove to the game room around 3 p.m. and left the boy in her car with the windows down. While she did periodically check on her grandson, constables say more than one hour passed between those check ups, and that's when someone inside the game room called the law.

"Windows were down, it was not very hot out luckily, but this is a part of town where someone could have walked by and taken the child. No one should, no parent should leave a child unattended for that period of time," Harris County Pct. 4 Capt. Wally Wieghat said.

Constables called an ambulance and spent an hour and half looking over the boy. During that time, his mother and great-grandmother came to get the child and are happy he is OK.

Gudonna Johnson faces a child endangerment charge. Court records show she does have prior arrests.