Shawtyeria Waites originally from New Mexico, relocated to Houston Texas to attend school at Prairie View A&M University. On July 25th, 2021, Shawtyeria Waites was out celebrating her 21st birthday with two friends at a club. When the group meet a man named Jordan Potts(26) that night, he invited them back to his place.
Around 8 p.m., Shawtyeria’s friend said that she had driven her to the Meyerland-area apartment complex where Potts lived. Her friends went to a nearby store after dropping her off. When they came back to pick Shawtyeria up, they called her phone and no answer. Shortly after a few more tries, the phone goes to voicemail. Now, police were called to Pott’s apartment by his neighbor to report hearing loud noises and a woman screaming, around 8:30 p.m., 30 minutes after Shawtyeria arrived. The neighbor said, “it sounded like she was trying to get out of the door.”
Houston police department doesn’t arrive at Jordan Pott’s apartment until 9:48 p.m. to question Potts about the noise complaint but claims it was just a video game, and the officers left.
Shawtyeria’s friend has been waiting for her to come back down from Pott’s apartment, but she never does. Her friend tries calling but is having no luck getting through. The friend sees the two officers and tells them she can’t reach Shawtyeria and that her phone is going straight to voicemail. The officers left without investigating.
On July 27th, Shawtyeria’s friend reported her missing after not being able to each Shawtyeria on her cell phone. It wasn’t until August 3rd when an HPD detective would question the friend and the last known whereabouts of Shawtyeria.
The neighbor who made the 911 call on July 25th was interviewed again on August 13th, where he told detectives that he knocked on the door after hearing the noises, but no one answered. After his neighbor called 911, he noticed Potts had backed his car into his assigned stall and that Pott’s left his trunk ajar, also mentioning that Potts left but returned shortly before police got there. That same day, volunteers passed out flyers with Shawtyeria’s photo on it, along with the info about the area where her friend last saw her.
Investigators obtained a search warrant on August 19th for Potts’s car, where they found a gas can, a shovel, and blood in the trunk of his car. Along with evidence that a body had been placed in the trunk of Potts’s car. August 23rd, detectives got another search warrant for Jordan Pott’s phone records.
Now, on August 27th, an FBI agent reports that Pott’s phone traveled west on the Katy Freeway, from 3:09 a.m. to 3:38 a.m. On July 26th, it stopped in the 38400 block of the Katy Freeway in Brookshire.
When investigators drove to the location where they found human remains along the service road. Investigators recovered evidence that matched the description of Shawtyeria Waites. An Autopsy later confirmed that it was her.
A search warrant was issued for Jordan Potts on August 30th, who detectives state is originally from Oregon and may have connections in Montana. According to some news articles, after the arrest warrant was issued, Potts was arrested in Gresham city 20 miles east of Portland, Oregon. He’s currently back in Houston jail on a 1 million dollar bond. At this time a cause of death has not been released.
Hearts and prayers go out to the Waites family in their time of need.
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