Career Criminal Kills Boxing Star, Hannah Rapp
The 26-year-old's life was cut short by one of the usual perpetrators who has been given leniency when he deserved judgment.
Charles Eric Medina, 31, has been charged with the killing of 26-year-old boxing star Hannah Rapp. A career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet, Medina, should have been locked away a long time ago.
Rapp, an up-and-coming featherweight fighter, was cycling with her boyfriend, William Pollalis, in Brazos County, Texas, on Saturday. Medina is said to have sped past the pair on a two-lane highway with just a foot of space between his vehicle and them.
This caused Pollalis to raise his hands and yell toward the vehicle. Medina then is said to have slammed the brakes, skidded to a stop, and reversed his vehicle into Rapp—launching her head into the rear glass window and knocking her off her bike.
She was brought to a hospital, but unfortunately succumbed to her injuries.
Medina, who lives 2 miles from where the manslaughter occurred, has a lengthy criminal record of 13 prior arrests in Brazos County alone since 2012.
He was first arrested for reckless driving in 2012 and evading arrest with a vehicle, to which he pleaded guilty.
Medina was arrested again for reckless driving in 2014, for a hit-and-run in 2020, and most recently for discharging a firearm in 2024, as well as evading arrest in 2025.
The two most recent court cases remain open, and it’s unclear what the outcome of the other cases was.
Medina was also previously ordered to have a psychological evaluation.
Medina is currently being held on a $250,000 bond on manslaughter charges for Saturday’s fatal incident.
Though Medina claimed he reversed slowly at 15 mph to talk to Pollalis, authorities alleged the damage to his vehicle showed a heavy impact, as if the car had suddenly braked and reversed into Rapp at a high speed.
Rapp previously ran track at Purdue University before transitioning to boxing, moving to Texas in 2024 and working as a fire and line safety inspector at Texas A&M while being a featherweight boxer out of Bryan, Texas.
A fundraiser to support Rapp’s loved ones has raised over $22,000 as of Monday evening.
She is remembered in the fundraiser description with these words:
“Hannah was resilient. She was brave and insightful, always pushing others to do their best. She loved her family so incredibly much, and moving from Indiana to Texas meant distance for her friends and family,” the fundraiser continued. “Hannah was an inspiration. Even on her hardest days, she continued to bring love, laughter, and light into the lives of others.”
This is just another example of non-Whites not being fit to be in our own spaces. Because of this, a young woman and a rising exemplar of her local community was killed needlessly and without mercy.
