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A 6-year-old Brock ISD student was killed when she was hit by a school bus Monday afternoon, authorities said. The crash happened just after 4 p.m. in the 400 block of Canyon Creek Circle in Parker County. “The bus stopped and off-loaded several students,” Texas DPS Sgt. Richard Hunter said in an email. “As the bus began moving, one of …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police officers discovered a young boy, believed to be between three and four years old, inside a car where a man had been shot to death in west Houston Friday night. Officers said the victim’s foot was still on the vehicle’s brake when his body was found on Fern near Country Place, just south of the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — According to Sheriff’s deputies, a woman was shot in the abdomen on the South Beltway in south Harris County Saturday afternoon in a crowded apartment. Investigators are trying to figure out exactly what happened. Authorities say others in the apartment tried to rush her to the hospital but crashed their car. A good Samaritan took them …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Katerin Celeste Torres Martinez, a Greenspoint-area mother, is accused of abandoning her five young children, one of whom has serious medical needs. Torres Martinez, 25, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with abandoning a child with intent to return, and endangering a child, according to records. Authorities say Torres Martinez left all five of her children …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A man accused in the shooting death of a 27-year-old in north Harris County died by suicide after a police chase in Alabama, authorities said. On Friday, at about 8:30 a.m., a witness saw a 27-year-old man being pulled out of a dark-colored Dodge Challenger and left in front of the Cambria Cove Apartments at …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police say their homicide division is now investigating a fatal fire in the Willowbend area of southwest Houston. The victim, identified by family as 65-year-old David Lind, was found dead in his bedroom at 4813 Kinglet Street. Tony Brown, district chief for the Houston Fire Department, says they were called to the house fire around …

Two 17-year-olds who were wounded after a shooting late Saturday in DeSoto drove to a gas station to call for help, police said. DeSoto police were called to a gas station across the city line in Dallas where the two teens, a Dallas boy and a Garland girl, had driven after reportedly being shot about 9 p.m. in the 1400 block …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — San Jacinto Precinct 1 Deputy Constable Neil Adams was just a few hours from finishing his last shift at PlazAmericas on Wednesday when he was shot and killed. The 62-year-old law officer had been working mall security as an extra job. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told ABC13 Adams told his wife it was too …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Harris County said they are looking for a man wanted in connection with a deadly shootout at an apartment complex in northeast Harris County. At about 12:40 a.m. Saturday, deputies responded to shots fired in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 3900 block of Atascocita Road. At the scene, authorities found a man …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A man was shot and killed after an argument with a relative in northeast Harris County, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. At about 7 p.m. Monday, deputies were dispatched to the 5800 block of Elberta after reports of a shooting. At the scene, authorities said they found the victim dead from multiple gunshot …