A day after being arrested, a 14-year-old is now charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Westfield High School shooting, according to an official with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
Two suspects already facing capital murder charges for the fatal shooting of a taco truck operator last December are now facing federal charges.
FBI Houston Safe Streets Task Force led a multi-agency operation that arrested more than 15 alleged members and associates of the self-described Houston gang YNS.
A man in his mid-20s died after being stabbed at a Houston apartment complex Wednesday night, police said. A woman who was in a relationship with him was taken into custody and hospitalized for treatment. The circumstances remain under investigation, and no charges have been announced.
Attorneys for a woman identified as Jane Doe have filed a federal lawsuit against several Houston-area hotel operators, including Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, alleging the businesses enabled and profited from a sex-trafficking scheme allegedly organized by a former Klein Cain High School teacher and her adult son.
Two men from Florida have been arrested after Pearland police investigated suspicious ATM activity and ultimately were led on a chase.
Royce Witchet, a 15-year-old described by his mother as loving, protective and passionate about sports and music, was fatally shot near Westfield High School and the Spring ISD administration building on Tuesday.
A 15-year-old was fatally shot on a sidewalk near Westfield High School shortly after dismissal; investigators believe the victim attended the school but say the shooting did not occur inside campus.
A 15-year-old was fatally shot on Ella Boulevard near Westfield High School. Harris County authorities and drone units are searching for a male suspect who fled on foot.
Authorities say the driver of a truck allegedly rammed into an ICE vehicle before crashing into a tree while attempting to flee immigration authorities in Galveston.
A 47-year-old man, Jeremy Porter, was arrested and charged with capital murder after police say he fired five rounds into a car carrying Monica Hicks and her five children, killing 5-year-old Zah’Laya
Jeremy Porter, 47, is charged with capital murder after 5-year-old Zah’Layah Walton was killed when someone opened fire on her family’s car in Cypress.
Court records detail allegations that at least two students at The Briarwood School, a Houston private school serving children with learning differences, were sexually assaulted and harassed in locker rooms and other school-related settings during the 2025–26 school year.
A University of Houston football player’s bond was raised Monday after investigators accused him of assaulting a pregnant woman during an argument about an abortion pill, according to investigators.
Jeremy Porter, 47, is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of 5-year-old Zah’Layah, who was riding in her family’s car during an apparent road rage shooting in Cypress.
An 18-year-old woman has been charged with manslaughter after allegedly fatally shooting her boyfriend of two years in the head at a townhome on Fondren Road earlier this year.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said information from automated license plate readers helped authorities identify and capture the suspect accused of opening fire on a vehicle with a mother and five children inside, killing a 5-year-old girl over the weekend.
Willis High School was placed in a hold status after staff members discovered a loaded gun on campus Monday morning.
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A 5-year-old girl, Zah’layah, was killed and two other children injured when a vehicle carrying a mother and her five children was shot at around 11:30 p.m. on Grant Road near Jones Road in northwest Harris County.
Twenty-one men aged from their early 20s to late 60s were arrested Sept. 16 in an undercover prostitution sting by the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office.
A fight in Midtown escalated into gunfire around 2:30 a.m. Sunday on West Gray Street when a participant began shooting and then continued firing from a vehicle while driving. HPD said three innocent bystanders were struck but are expected to be okay.
A 5-year-old girl was killed and two other children injured after gunfire struck a vehicle carrying five children in northwest Houston late Saturday night, authorities said.
A 17-year-old, Anthony Castro, was arrested and charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Victor Thomas Gonzalez, who had been chasing suspects after an alleged armed robbery.
A Houston family waited nearly three years for justice, and on Thursday, they finally got it. A jury sentenced 51-year-old Yoland Washington to 75 years in prison for the murder of 21-year-old Deundrea Ford, a young mother who disappeared after leaving work along the East Freeway in September 2023.
Amid an ongoing extradition battle, Harris County prosecutors on Friday filed formal notice with the state court that they will not seek the death penalty for Lee Gilley, the Houston man accused of murdering his pregnant wife before fleeing the U.S. while on bond.
A woman was taken into custody Friday afternoon after a man was shot on a Houston Metro bus in southwest Houston, according to the Houston Police Department.
Former Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo general counsel Jeffrey Downing pleaded guilty to online solicitation of a minor, accepting five years of deferred adjudication and a 10-year sex offender registration requirement. Arrested in May 2024 after communicating on Kik with an undercover investigator who posed as a 15-year-old, Downing — who described himself as “a cowboy lawyer” — exchanged explicit messages and photos and offered gifts. The third-degree felony carried potential prison time, but prosecutors waived a jury trial and the judge imposed the sentence. Downing, who joined HLSR in October 2022 and has no prior criminal history, remains free on bond and retains an active Texas bar license.
A man in his 70s who was a defendant died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound outside the Lee G. Alworth Building in Conroe shortly before his scheduled sentencing.
An adult man was fatally shot around 2:30 a.m. at a bus stop in the 600 block of West Cavalcade Street in north Houston after a vehicle stopped nearby and someone inside fired at him before fleeing.
A man charged in the fatal shootings of two separate Harris County teenagers will be held without bond pending trial, Judge Hazel Jones ruled on Thursday.
Harris County is putting $1.4 million toward around-the-clock ankle monitor oversight, a direct response to the high-profile case of a capital murder defendant who cut off his device and fled to Italy months before his scheduled trial.
A former Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center manager pleaded guilty to seven felony counts after investigators uncovered hidden cameras used to secretly record people in hospital bathrooms and dressing rooms.
