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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, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An alleged auto theft suspect is dead after a struggle ensued with a Houston police officer on the city’s south side. The scene began unfolding at about 2:35 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of a Family Dollar store at 12201 Martin Luther King Blvd near East Orem. Houston police said an officer was looking into an …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police are looking into whether a driver was intoxicated before he crashed into someone who was walking in the middle of the Gulf Freeway. According to HPD, the fatal crash happened at about 11:45 p.m. Saturday in the northbound lanes of the freeway, just before Telephone Road. Video at the scene showed the driver’s smashed windshield …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Authorities say a man ran for his life after being shot outside a convenience store in northwest Houston on Sunday. Houston Police Department officers said they were dispatched to a shooting at about 2:30 a.m. near Feldspar Street and Bingle Road before several ShotSpotter calls were reported along W. 43rd Street and Highway 290. HPD said the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police say a mother was shot while in the car with her husband and small child in the Acres Homes area on Friday. It happened at about 10:40 p.m. in the intersection of Wheatley and West Little York when officers reportedly heard the gunshots from a distance while investigating a nearby robbery. Officials said the family …