Tag Archives: HPD says

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police are investigating the stabbing death of a woman on the city’s southwest side. Officers responded to the scene in the 14100 block of Del Papa at about 5:12 p.m. Wednesday. The woman was found dead from apparent stab wounds, and the person involved was believed to be someone she knew, according to police. They added …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police are trying to figure out why a man was standing in the middle of an I-45 north entrance ramp near downtown when he was hit and killed. Houston Police said the man was on the Allen Parkway entrance ramp to the freeway when he was hit by a rideshare driver around 3 a.m. Tuesday. The driver …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — “Some sort of transaction” took place in a north Houston parking lot when someone shot and killed two men on Friday evening, police said. The Houston Police Department said its North Patrol officers were called to a shooting in the 8200 block of Fulton Street, near Meadow Lea Drive, in the city’s Northside/Northline neighborhood. An HPD tweet …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police are searching for the suspects who shot and killed a man in southeast Houston while trying to rob him and a friend. The shooting took place at about 1:50 a.m. Thursday in the 12500 block of S. Green Drive. Police said the man was found dead in the apartment complex’s parking lot between two cars. A …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man reportedly acting “erratic and threatening” was shot and killed by a Houston Police Department officer in the city’s Denver Harbor neighborhood on Wednesday, according to officials. The shooting happened in the 400 block of Rouse Street near Laredo Street, across from a school that went into lockdown, police said. Officers said they received a welfare …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police are investigating a scene in the city’s South Loop area after a man was found shot to death inside a car near NRG Stadium on Thursday evening. According to police, officers responded to 9898 Main Street after multiple people called and reported hearing several gunshots. Once investigators arrived, a vehicle was found stalled in the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One person is in custody after allegedly keeping a 17-year-old hostage during a chase that ended in a crash in the Galleria area, according to police. On Sunday at about 11 a.m., officers with the Houston Police Department responded to a reported hostage situation at 2099 Southmore Blvd. The suspect in question led officers on a chase …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Houston Police Department is investigating a robbery that led to a suspect being shot twice by a passerby in SW Houston, police said. It happened at a Chase Bank in the 10400 block of Westheimer Road on Saturday evening. According to police, just after 7 p.m., a driver in a white truck pulled up to an …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Four people were rushed to the hospital from a southeast Houston gas station, where police say a shooting that may have stemmed from an attempted robbery unfolded on Thursday night. The Houston Police Department was called out to the 8000 block of the South I-610 Loop East, according to an HPD tweet sent at 9:18 p.m. One …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police are investigating after a teenager riding in a car was struck by gunfire near a middle school in southwest Houston on Wednesday morning. Houston ISD’s Welch Middle School was “temporarily in secure mode as a precautionary measure while police investigated suspicious activity in the area,” according to a statement from the district. According to Houston police, …