Organizers cancelled the rest of the weekend performances at Houston’s Astroworld Festival at NRG Park after a chaotic opening night in which eight people died and hundreds more were injured. Investigators are still trying to to determine what caused the casualties. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the dead victims ranged in age from 14- to …
Separate shootings at Halloween house parties in Houston left two people dead early Sunday morning. As CrimeOnline previously reported, an 18-year-old woman was killed shortly before 1 a.m. in north Houston. Three minors were wounded in the shooting, which broke out behind the house and in the street, apparently from a fight, Houston police said. …
Kendrick Lee’s three brothers were abandoned in their apartment with his decomposing body for nearly a year.
While it wasn’t clear just how long the children had been abandoned in the apartment, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said it was an “extended” period of time, “and I emphasize ‘extended.'”
Family members identified the four people found dead inside their burning home on Sunday, all four with gunshot wounds. Relatives and friends said that 37-year-old Jairo Escano; his wife Elvira, 44; and their two kids, 13-year-old Isabel and 10-year-old Jairo Jr, were all “good people,” KHOU reported. The family was found Sunday morning after Houston …
Firefighters found a man, a woman, a boy, and a girl with gunshot wounds dead inside a southwest Houston home on fire Sunday morning. Police said the children appeared to be between the ages of 10 and 13, KPRC reported. The adults appeared to be in their 50s, according to KTRK. Fire crews were called …
A 19-year-old Houston woman has been charged with setting a man on fire earlier this month, killing him. Emma Presler, facing a murder charge, is not in custody, Houston Police said, and detectives are actively searching for her, according to Fox 26. The incident took place on August 6, the station said. Houston firefighters responded …
A Texas man opened fire on a New York couple having dinner at Houston’s Downtown Aquarium restaurant last week, killing the husband before turning the gun on himself. Danny Cazares, 39, had been sitting at the bar, drinking alone for several hours on Thursday before he shot Gabriel Moriones Vargas, 29, and his 24-year-old wife, …
Houston police have charged Xavier Davis, 28, with capital murder in the deaths of Donyavia Lagway, Gregory Carhee, and their 6-year-old daughter Harmony.
Houston police are looking for a man suspected of killing a young mother and wounding the child they had together — on the baby boy’s first birthday. Investigators said the suspect, who they have not named, was out of jail on seven felony bonds and was supposed to be wearing an ankle monitor, according to …
A 10-year-old Texas girl with a gunshot wound to her arm clutched her baby brother close and played dead after a gunman killed three members of her family in Houston overnight, then she FaceTimed her grandmother to get help. Family members rushed to the apartment and found 35-year-old Gregory Carhee, 29-year-old Donyavia Lagway, and their …
A 5-year-old boy found dead in a Texas hotel room last week has been officially identified as Samuel Olson, and an autopsy determined the boy was murdered by blunt head trauma. The woman arrested in Samuel’s disappearance — Theresa Balboa — appeared in a Harris County court Monday on a charge of tampering with evidence/human …
