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 …
Houston police are looking for an Uber driving accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old who had hired him to take her to a local Family Dollar store. Police said Leonel Medina, 49, picked up the girl on May 12 and drove to a dead end in the back of a neighborhood instead of the store. …
A Texas mom has been charged with shooting her 5-year-old son while trying to shoot a loose dog belonging to a neighbor. The incident happened Saturday afternoon, Houston police said, according to KTRK. The boy was hospitalized in stable condition. Angela Mia Vargas, 24, was charged with deadly conduct with a firearm. Neighbors told KTRK …
Six-year-old Houston boy Samuel Olson was dead on May 10, more than two weeks before his father reported him missing, according to court documents filed in the case on Thursday. Charging documents against 29-year-old Theresa Balboa, the girlfriend of Sam Olson’s father, say that Balboa called her roommate on that date and told him the …
Search crews looking for a missing Houston mother are using sonar in bodies of water southwest of the city, although a vehicle found underwater on Thursday was not connected with Erica Hernanadez. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the 40-year-old mother of three was last seen leaving a friend’s house at about 2:30 a.m. on April 18. …
A 3-year-old boy got his hands on a gun in a Houston apartment Friday morning and shot his baby brother to death. Houston Police Assistant Chief Wendy Baimbridge said several adults were in the apartment at the time and drove the 8-month-old infant to a hospital, but he did not survive. The baby was shot …
A Texas mother has been charged with killing her 6-year-old son last year to collection $100,000 in insurance. Ashley Marks, 25, was denied bail on Thursday after her arrest at day earlier, KTRK reported. Prosecutors say Marks gave Jason Sanchez-Marks lethal doses of over-the-counter drugs as well as methamphetamine, court records say. A toxicology report …
A 40-year-old Texas woman was in the hospital Monday with severe burns after her 60-year-old boyfriend allegedly set her on fire over the the weekend, KHOU reported. Houston police are still looking for Harold Lynn Celestine, who is charged with aggravated assault of a family member and criminal mischief following the incident on Saturday. Celestine …
