Former Houston attorney on trial in 2007 drowning
By RENÉE C. LEE
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Aug. 31, 2010, 10:36PM
Three years after a Houston woman mysteriously drowned in her bathtub, her boyfriend, a criminal defense attorney with a history of drug use, now stands trial on charges that he gave her heroin before she died.
On Tuesday, Harris County prosecutors opened their case against Shawn Roland Roberts.
Roberts, they said, injected 32-year-old Tara Sganga with the drug on March 19, 2007.
That same day, Roberts found Sganga unconscious and submerged in brownish red water in the bathtub of their far west Houston apartment sometime after noon, prosecutors said.
He called 911, and paramedics took her to a hospital, where she died.
The cause of her death was ruled a drowning, though authorities never determined how she drowned.
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