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July 27, 2002, 9:14PM Wife pleaded for husband to live She professed love as man lay beneath her car, witness says By RUTH RENDON Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle After repeatedly running over her husband in a hotel parking lot, Clara Harris apologized, said she loved him and pleaded for him to breathe as he lay beneath her car, an eyewitness said Saturday. The dying man's teenage daughter, who had been in the car, got out and punched Harris in the face before both collapsed in tears, said Angela Reyes. Reyes said she watched the incident Wednesday night as she sat in her car at the Hilton Hotel at 3000 NASA Road 1 on Clear Lake. David Lynn Harris, a 44-year-old orthodontist with a practice in Clear Lake City, died later that night at a nearby hospital. Services were held Saturday in Pearland. Clara Harris, his wife of 10 years, is free on $30,000 bail after being charged with murder. The fatal incident climaxed a confrontation that began when she and her husband's 16-year-old daughter from a previous marriage went into the hotel lobby and found David Harris with a woman, witnesses said. Clara Harris, a dentist who also is 44, hit and shouted at the other woman as David Harris tried to push his wife away, said witness John Tyler, who had attended a church service there. The scuffle seemed to have ended after everyone went outside, Tyler said. Reyes, 22, said she had gone to the hotel to pick up her boyfriend, who works there, about 9 p.m. Wednesday. She said that, while waiting in her car in the back parking lot, she saw a hotel employee escort a man and a woman to a Lincoln Navigator parked nearby. The couple, she later learned, was David Harris and Gail Bridges. The Navigator, a sport utility vehicle, is registered to Bridges. Harris opened the passenger door for Bridges and was walking around to the driver's side, Reyes said, when she heard tires squealing and saw Clara Harris' silver Mercedes- Benz sedan. "I don't even know how she made it around the corner, she was going so fast," Reyes said. "It was a sharp turn. That's when she hit him. He flew up and over to the next parking lot. "She jumped the curb and went over there and was just doing doughnuts," Reyes said, referring to the car going in circles. The man was propelled about 25 feet by the impact, said Harris County prosecutor Mia Magness. During Harris' arraignment hearing Friday, Magness said the woman drove over two grassy medians and ran over her husband three more times before putting the car in reverse and leaving it parked on him. Reyes said that, when Clara Harris initially hit her husband, her Mercedes scraped the Navigator "but she kept on going. She gassed it and jumped the curb." She said she could see the teenager, in the front seat, trying to get out. "Her door came out, and her leg was hanging out." When the car finally came to a stop, Reyes said, the girl got out, walked around and hit her stepmother in the face with her fist. She then burst into uncontrollable sobs. "She just punched her," she said. Clara Harris had gotten out, looked at her husband and was yelling, "I'm so sorry! I love you! Keep breathing!" Reyes said. She said her boyfriend told her that Harris had come to the hotel on Monday, asking questions such as whether there was more than one place where guests could register and where the entrances were located. Harris had hired a Clear Lake-area private investigation agency on Tuesday to monitor her husband. A source close to the case told the Chronicle that Harris had given the agency the name of the woman her husband was seeing and the locations where they could be found, including the Hilton near Johnson Space Center. The source also said David Harris recently had told his wife that their marriage was over and that he was involved with another woman. "I think he wrote his own death sentence," the source said. The Harrises, who shared a mansion in Friendswood, had 3-year-old twin sons. In the arraignment hearing Friday, state District Judge Carol Davies warned Harris that her bail would be revoked if she attempts to contact the other woman, who was identified as Bridges, 38. According to Galveston County court records, Bridges, who lived in League City, filed for divorce in April 1999, alleging discord and conflict of personalities. Her husband, Steven E. Bridges, countersued and accused her of cruel treatment and adultery. The couple, who had three children, were married on July 16, 1988. Their divorce was final in November 2000. 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