HOUSTON — Melissa Dawn Morden’s family, friends and co-workers held a memorial service Saturday to eulogize the Cy-Fair paramedic who was killed one week before by her boyfriend.
Troy Aaron Clay, 42, Morden’s childhood friend and boyfriend is charged in her murder and is on the run, KTRK reported.
Clay has a history of criminal violence, but neither Morden nor her family knew.
Patricia Morden, the victim’s mother, said the week before she called the two to ask if they were going to dinner. “He told me, ‘She’s not with us,’ which scared me. And then he told me what he had done to her.”
Morden’s mother called police, who went to Morden’s house and confirmed her mother’s fears.
“He said he was going to turn himself in,” she said. But he didn’t.
“Every day that goes by with him still out there makes it worse,” Patricia Morden said. “We have no clue where he is, and in his frame of mind, we have no idea what he’s capable of.”
At the memorial service, people who knew Morden talked about what a remarkable person she was.
“I got a call from a patient Melissa attended saying ‘your child helped me.’ She was the last patient on the last call she ever made.”