Houston ranks among the top Texas cities in many ways, but the state’s largest city recently earned a distinction that’s far from flattering: it led the state in stolen vehicles last month.

Houston police have arrested a man who was allegedly involved in a fatal shooting during a robbery in west Houston over the weekend.

Investigators said a man was dropping off his daughter at the airport when Tristan T. Griffin, 28, went up to him and punched him in the face while he was getting back into his car. He also assaulted another person for trying to intervene.

The wife of a man killed during a violent carjacking in southwest Houston says she’s still waiting for answers — and for justice — nearly a week after her husband was shot and later died at the hospital.

Armed carjackings continue to pose a serious threat to drivers across the country, with criminals often targeting unsuspecting victims at common locations like stop signs, parking lots, and gas stations.

An 18-year-old named Christopher Rashad Morgan Jr. was arrested in west Harris County following a high-speed chase after a carjacking incident.

A man is now in custody after leading law enforcement on a chase following a carjacking in west Harris County Wednesday.

Police say several armed men tried to steal the woman's vehicle as she entered an apartment complex. That's when she and the attempted carjackers exchanged gunfire before they climbed a fence and took off.

A 17-year-old boy has been transported to a nearby hospital after being shot several times in an attempted carjacking in northeast Houston.

Family and friends remembered a 90-year-old veteran Sunday as the search continues for his killer.

A man was shot and killed during a carjacking in Houston on Saturday.

A World War II veteran was shot and killed during a carjacking in Houston on Saturday.

A Houston man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison after being caught on camera carjacking an elderly couple and committing a murder on the same day.

A police chase with a carjacking suspect has ended in Katy Wednesday afternoon.

Investigators said the gunman shot, and carjacked the 16-year-old in front of his mother and was captured shortly after a chase in southwest Houston.

A convicted felon is in the Harris County Jail after he is accused of violently carjacking an 83-year-old woman as she finished loading groceries in North Harris County last week.

After a murder suspect attempted to carjack several people before being shot by Spring Branch ISD police Thursday, Harris County Precinct 2 Constable Jerry Garcia is showing people what to do if they ever come face to face with a carjacker.

A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting and carjacking of a man outside of a gas station in northeast Houston, the Houston Police Department said.

A man and woman who were accused in the beating and carjacking of a man in November 2022 have pleaded guilty to the crime.

Paola Díaz says her husband of two years and the father of their 7-year-old son was a hardworking, loving man. She had no idea that Thursday morning would be the last time she saw her husband, Jose Díaz, alive.

A 31-year-old Houston man has pleaded guilty to shooting a tow truck driver before taking his vehicle at a washeteria in east Houston last year, the United States Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

A carjacking and robbery at a north Houston vape shop Thursday has led to the discovery of other crimes committed by the suspects, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators from the Houston Police Department are asking for the public’s help in identifying suspects caught on camera pulling a man who was sleeping inside his car onto the ground before driving off with the vehicle.

A new surveillance video has been released Friday of two suspects tied to a deadly carjacking and shooting Tuesday morning, according to the Houston Police Department.

An investigation is underway after a man was shot before his car was stolen at a store in southeast Houston Wednesday, officers with the Houston Police Department said.

Police are on the hunt for two suspects who allegedly shot a woman during a carjacking, then ran the victim over with her own vehicle in west Houston on Valentine’s Day.

Two children are safe after a carjacking that led to a kidnapping in southwest Houston Sunday, officers with the Houston Police Department said.

Officers with the Houston Police Department are investigating after they said one man was fatally shot and another man was injured during a carjacking at a southwest Houston apartment complex Tuesday.

An investigation is underway after a man was fatally shot during a carjacking in southeast Houston Tuesday, officers with the Houston Police Department said.

A 68-year-old woman suffered a broken arm after she was carjacked by an armed suspect outside a retail store in northwest Harris County Saturday morning, deputies with Harris County Sheriff’s Office said.

Before fleeing the scene in the stolen vehicle, Houston police said the suspects shot at the victim.

A man was shot nearly 18 times by a carjacking suspect who was just released from jail earlier this month, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.

Crime Stoppers of Houston and investigators with the Houston Police Department are asking for the public's help in getting a suspect believed to be involved in a carjacking and kidnapping off the streets.

Texas City police have arrested a man officers said carjacked a Cadillac and then slammed the vehicle into the wall of a Jack in the Box restaurant on Wednesday morning.

The Houston Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man accused of credit card abuse.

Houston police have a man in custody after they said he hijacked an ambulance at gunpoint Friday with a patient and emergency medical technician inside.

Harris County Sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help in identifying two suspects involved in a brazen carjacking that took place on July 6.

A man accused of killing a couple, their 6-year-old daughter and injuring their 10-year-old daughter is now facing a charge of aggravated robbery on top of three capital murder charges.

Harris County sheriff’s deputies are investigating two related carjacking scenes Tuesday. According to authorities, a man in his 50s was shot during one and a suspect was shot during another.

An Atascocita-area mother said she spent part of Mother’s Day terrified after she was carjacked at her home.

HOUSTON – Max Marin was on a routine pizza delivery Friday night when he said he was held up at gunpoint by five men and carjacked. The thieves ordered the pizza to a vacant home and were waiting on Marin in the driveway, deputies said. Marin said he ran to a neighbor’s home and was able to call 911 but the carjackers were long gone. “Both of my jobs were delivering and she worked all the way in the Woodlands so there’s no way to commute to and from,” Marin said. Marin said he quit his delivery job at Papa’s Johns and is now searching for something closer to home.

HOUSTON – Houston police say a 10-month-old baby girl was found safe after the truck she was in was stolen from a gas station in northeast Houston Friday morning. Car theft caught on cameraSurveillance footage from the gas station shows a dark SUV pull up behind the pickup truck that was parked at a pump. A man in a blue hoodie got out of the SUV and walked casually around the pickup truck, peeking inside the windows. At that moment a woman can be seen running toward the pickup truck, trying to stop him. The suspect in the pickup truck and the SUV are seen speeding away and the woman stops another pickup truck, gets in and appear to follow the suspect.