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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Undercover officers performing surveillance for a narcotics investigation were shot at by someone unrelated to the case, the Houston Police Department said on Tuesday. No one was injured, but one person was detained after the shots were fired in the 3200 block of Wayne Street, off Collingsworth, in the Greater Fifth Ward. According to HPD, the incident …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police are searching for a woman who they said stabbed two men in two separate incidents in December. Houston police said the first incident took place on Dec. 9. The 63-year-old man was walking on Bettis Drive in an alleyway behind a business when the woman approached him from behind and stabbed him in the face for …

HOUSTON, Texas — Houston police are investigating a fatal crash in southeast Houston that shut down MLK Boulevard until early Sunday morning. The crash happened just before 9 p.m. near Willow Glen Drive. According to officials, a driver, identified as a teenager, was traveling northbound on MLK in a white SUV when they collided with a gray vehicle heading westbound on …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One person is injured after shots were fired near Houston’s southwest area Friday evening. The Houston Police Department said officers responded to the shooting at 6600 W. Fuqua, near Chimney Rock Road. Authorities said a man was injured in the shooting and is expected to survive. The suspected shooter allegedly took off on foot. HPD has not …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man is dead after an argument between three men escalated into a shooting in southeast Houston Wednesday afternoon, police said. The Houston Police Department said officers were dispatched at about 1 p.m. to a call of a shooting at an apartment complex at 7909 South Sam Houston Parkway East near Telephone Road. Once on scene, police …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A teenager was arrested and accused of driving while intoxicated after a homeless man was killed in west Houston Friday evening. The Houston Police Department said a man was sleeping under the bridge on the Katy Freeway at Silber overpass when he was hit by an SUV at about 11:30 p.m. According to police, a 17-year-old is …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A person living in a Third Ward high-rise apartment complex made a gruesome discovery overnight. A resident on the 17th floor was waiting for the elevator when the doors opened up, revealing the body of a man in his 20s who had been shot several times. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Another resident on …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An arrest has been made in connection to a robbery that turned deadly over the weekend in the Galleria area, according to the Houston Police Department. Police said the attack happened over a bag near Saks Fifth Avenue on West Alabama Street at Sage Road on Saturday morning. On Tuesday, the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office said …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A teenage girl from a small Texas town has been identified as the victim in Sunday’s deadly road rage shooting in downtown Houston. Louise Jean Wilson, 17, was shot and killed early Sunday morning, according to family members. She and her friends were driving to Galveston for a short getaway. Houston police responded to the southbound lanes …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Houston Police Department needs the public’s assistance in searching for an 8-year-old boy last seen in north Houston. HPD sent out a bulletin that Jeremiah Landry was last seen leaving his home near the 1400 block of West Gulf Bank Road on Sunday. Jeremiah was reportedly wearing a blue Sonic hoodie, pants, and black FILA slides. …