Chad Maydwell, already jailed for the capital murder of his grandmother, now faces additional charges for allegedly killing fellow inmate Michael Griego at Harris County Jail.

The nephew of a Spring Branch ISD Police Department dispatcher has been arrested, accused in his uncle’s murder.

A 21-year-old man, Enrique Malaquias Bonilla, has been charged with murder for allegedly dropping 23-year-old Sostenos Briones from a six-story parking garage during a robbery on September 26 at an apartment complex on Leona Street in Houston.

Robert Roberson was set to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed on a “shaken baby syndrome” diagnosis after getting convicted for killing his 2-year-old daughter. He maintained his innocence and in October 2024, his sentence was put on a temporary pause.

Investigators said they were called to a family disturbance and found a woman stabbed to death by her husband, who was later found and arrested less than 10 miles away.

A Houston man accused of fatally shooting his neighbor is now held on a $5 million bond after more than 500 local residents signed a petition requesting he be denied bail.

A Houston man, Christopher Braziel, is charged with capital murder and held on a $5 million bond after allegedly shooting his neighbor, Heather Smith, during a home invasion.

Frank Orenday has been charged with capital murder following a shooting at the Mustang Inn Motel in Humble on November 1, 2023.

While homicide detectives were looking into a man's death, where a possible shooter wearing a Michael Myers "Halloween" mask was seen leaving the area, they learned his estranged wife was murdered back in August.

A man's body was found in his garage, where he'd been shot several times and neighbors told deputies they saw a person with a Halloween mask, leaving the area but investigators aren't sure if they're the shooter.

By 2024 checking your children’s Halloween candy is a must for many parents. In 1974, checking candy wasn’t a concern until an 8-year-old Deer Park boy died from a tainted Pixie Stix.

Seabrook police are actively searching for 22-year-old Dawayland Earnest Hurst, who is wanted in connection with the death of Mary Jayne Collins.

A Chambers County judge set an April trial date for 49-year-old Sarah Hartsfield during a hearing Monday morning.

The family of Nikki Curtis, a two-year-old murder victim, is urging Texas lawmakers to consider the full extent of evidence against Robert Roberson, who was convicted of her 2002 murder.

Dr. Talat Jehan Khan was stabbed to death at her Conroe apartment complex.An event was held Sunday at the Masjid Hamza Community Center in Houston where dozens of people honored Dr. Khan.

A man wanted for allegedly shooting and killing his brother at a northwest Houston apartment in 2022 has been captured in Iowa.

Authorities are searching for Stephen Chaney, who vanished just as his murder trial was about to start.

Channel Jasmine Yonko, 30, is being held without bond after being charged with capital murder for the death of her 17-month-old daughter, Hannah, in Galveston.

After the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson was delayed, the Office of the Texas Attorney General has released the autopsy report for Roberson’s daughter, Nikki Curtis, who he was convicted of killing and sentenced to die for.

An infant has died after being found abandoned in the middle of the street near the Galveston Seawall.

Authorities in southwest Houston are piecing together what led up to a man's death after his body was found in an apartment with obvious signs of a struggle and visible injuries.

"We are deeply disappointed that the Defendant, [Lee Gilley] made bond just a week after Christa’s death, but we are focused on the safety and well being of Christa’s children," the family's attorney said in a statement.

A man wanted for allegedly shooting and killing his brother at a northwest Houston apartment in 2022 has been captured in Iowa.

Houston police are searching for Joshua Garcia, 17, who is charged with murder in the July shooting of 14-year-old Abraham Choukair, found dead in a parked car.

Fernando Vega, a 21-year-old Houston man, faces two counts of capital murder for the deaths of his twin infants, who suffered blunt force trauma and long-term abuse.

Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting at an apartment complex in North Harris County, where a man in his mid to late 20s was found shot dead by an off-duty police officer on Tuesday night.

An urgent manhunt is underway in Fort Bend County after a man is accused of stabbing his partner to death.

Michael West, 48, has been charged with aggravated assault following the discovery of a 33-year-old woman stabbed to death in her Meyerland apartment.

In memory of Christa and her unborn child, a vigil will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

Police said the shootout involved two groups of people and found a man shot to death and caught two people after a brief chase that ended in a crash.

Seabrook police are actively searching for 22-year-old Dawayland Earnest Hurst, who is wanted in connection with the death of Mary Jayne Collins.

Sebastian Sanchez, 25, has been charged with murder following a police chase in Humble, Texas, that resulted in a fatal crash.

An arrest has been made following a mass shooting at a block party in Northeast Houston, which resulted in three fatalities and eight injuries.

Police say a man stabbed in southeast Houston was heard calling for help right before investigators arrived and tried treating him but it was too late.

The shooting happened in the 5900 block of Schroeder Road.

Deundrea Ford's body was discovered in Dallas on September 18, 2024, and identified a week later.

A Houston woman, Jasmine Marie Ellison, and a man, Glenn Wayne Smith, have been arrested and charged with causing serious bodily injury to a child following the death of a five-month-old infant from severe abuse.

Christopher Bernard, 25, has been charged with murder and tampering with evidence after admitting to strangling 29-year-old Cortney Hall and disposing of her body in a secluded area of northwest Harris County.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public's assistance in solving the heartbreaking shooting of 19-year-old Cody Johnson.

The sentencing phase for ex-Houston Police Department narcotics officer Gerald Goines continues after his conviction for the 2019 Harding Street raid that led to the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.

The State of Texas has executed a Harris County man tied to five murders from the late 1980s and 1990s.

Athir Murady, charged with the murder of Harris County Precinct 4 Corporal Maher Husseini, appeared in court for the first time on Monday.

Houston police have charged a third suspect, Darius Limar Sonnier, with capital murder in connection with the fatal shooting of 75-year-old That Huu Le outside an H-E-B parking lot on January 20, 2018.

Houston police and Crime Stoppers have increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of Giovanni Ornelas, wanted in connection with the deadly drive-by shooting of Albert Castillo Jr.

Houston police are investigating the murder of Esteban Valdez and his dog, "Boy," who were found shot multiple times on Sunnyside Street on July 9.

Officials have released Gerald Goines’ mugshot nearly 24 hours after a guilty verdict was returned in the high-profile murder trial in the deadly 2019 Harding Street raid.

Before Wednesday, there were a few other cases against Houston police officers that resulted in convictions for negligent homicide.

A 62-year-old man, Charles McCoy, Jr., was arrested and charged with murder after League City police discovered his wife, Susan McCoy, dead in their home during an eviction process.

Sixteen years after the body of an infant was found along Seawall Blvd. in Galveston, the father of the child is scheduled for execution in Huntsville.

Christian Ivan Cavazos, a Houston gang member, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in a 2019 crime spree that resulted in five deaths.

In the months since, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office has poured in significant resources to try to identify Coles’ killer or killers but have not succeeded yet.

The murder trial of former Houston Police Department narcotics officer Gerald Goines continues today. Jurors spent yesterday afternoon viewing autopsy photos of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, the couple killed during the Harding Street raid.

A Harris County grand jury has indicted both suspects accused in the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.

During the interview, Athir Murady avoided answering direct questions about Husseini’s Sept. 3 murder and the charges filed against him.

On the fourth day of former HPD narcotics officer Gerald Goines' murder trial, new revelations emerged about potentially crucial, yet missing, body camera footage from the deadly 2019 Harding Street raid.

Months after two Venezuelan immigrants were charged with the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, one of the suspects asked for a protective order to ensure the media attention about the case won’t prevent him from having a fair trial. Wednesday morning, that order was rejected when the two men appeared in court

After 16 years on the run, Juan Gonzalez, wanted for two separate murders in Houston from 2007 and 2008, has been arrested in Mexico.

Court documents reveal that just days before killing a 90-year-old veteran, the 21-year-old was involved in an aggravated robbery on the University of Houston campus.

The victim's roommate discovered the body around 10 p.m. after neighbors reported hearing an argument followed by gunshots.

Dashcam video in Corporal Maher Husseini's private car showed how he was killed and how the two men had a 'cordial' conversation minutes before the murder.

Athir Murady has been charged with the murder of Harris County Deputy Constable Maher Husseini, who was gunned down while waiting at a stoplight on Tuesday.

Homicide detectives are looking into what led up to a man's death on Louetta after his body was found "with possible trauma."

The Houston Police Department says a man was found dead inside of a townhome in the Fourth Ward Wednesday evening.

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Sgt. Nicholas Yeley with Galveston City Marshals told KPRC 2 he was on the phone headed home when he spotted the suspect's vehicle and called in the troops to get him in handcuffs.

Donning an orange jumpsuit, Bobby Shah, 51, stood before a judge Tuesday morning. where Pandey’s family members and friends in the courtroom could be heard crying as they listened to what happened to the college student from Nepal.

Kunwar said he helped install a surveillance camera outside her apartment. After the camera was up, he said the stalker stopped showing up.

A suspect has been arrested, accused of shooting a killing a woman who was found dead by her boyfriend at a northwest Harris County home.

Bail has been denied for a suspect accused of killing a 21-year-old student from Nepal who was studying nursing in Houston.

Gerald Goines, the ex-Houston police officer at the center of the tragic Harding Street raid, is set to go on trial for felony murder in September. The raid, which occurred over five years ago, resulted in the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas and left five officers wounded. Goines admitted that the information used to obtain the warrant was fabricated. This case has since triggered a broader investigation into systemic corruption within the Houston Police Department’s narcotics division.

A search warrant obtained by KPRC 2 is revealing new details in case of a former Lone Star College-Tomball official charged with the murder of his infant son.

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.

Due to the case gaining national and media attention, Franklin Peña’s attorneys have filed a protective order claiming “the additional extra-judicial statements to the news media are likely to produce a result of undue prejudice in the community to deprive the Defendant of a fair trial”

Firefighters responded to a house fire off Plains River Drive in the Cypress Mill Subdivision around 7 a.m. Sunday morning. That’s where they found the bodies of Richard, her boyfriend, Kolin Foster and his mother, Kelly Masciarelli.

A 35-year-old man accused of trying to hit his significant other with a vehicle after a dispute but instead hitting and killing a Midtown nightclub manager is charged with murder.

Nearly three years after the deadly shooting at a Baytown vigil that claimed the life of 25-year-old Disha Allen and injured 13 others, investigators are appealing to the community for new leads.

Emmitt Eugene Carter, an Assistant Dean at Lone Star College-Tomball, has been charged with Injury to a Child following the death of his six-month-old son on July 8, 2023.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says 18-year-old Isaiah Mayham is now charged with murder in connection to the death of John Dennis Holmes III.

A father was shot and killed in southeast Houston after reporting vandalism of his car the previous day.

A wanted man accused of hitting and killing a woman waiting at a Houston bus stop while fleeing law enforcement Wednesday is now charged with murder.

Case Darwin, a lawyer from San Marcos, TX, will now be her lead counsel. He told KPRC 2′s Bryce Newberry by phone Monday he doesn’t expect the case to go to trial until later this year or early next.

TV actor Akili McDowell has been charged with murder and theft following the shooting death of 20-year-old Cesar Peralta at an East Houston apartment complex.

A man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of his wife in Waller County.

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Kerry Cunningham tried breaking into his estranged wife's apartment and shot and killed Clifton Johnson, who recently arrived in Houston from Florida.

The incident happened on July 21 in the 20800 block of Sunshine Meadow Drive near Waller Tomball Road.

Deputies are investigating a gruesome discovery after uncovering a man’s body, possibly in his 20s, with “obvious signs of trauma.”

Investigators say the man was shot to death, but the shooting didn't happen in the parking lot. He was driven there and it's unclear

James Hart is accused of tampering with Giselle Salazar's body.

A new search warrant is providing more details into what happened before and after the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.

James Michael Sotelo, 21, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 2021 murder of his high school friend, Corey Thompson.

The remains were exhumed on July 10. The man, described as a dark-haired white male, approximately 6 feet tall, around 50 years of age, and weighing between 180-185 pounds, was found decapitated, with his hands and legs amputated off FM 359 near the Jones Creek bridge on June 11, 1964.

A man wanted for hitting and killing a woman with a car while fleeing from police on Houston’s south side has been arrested in Illinois.

A second suspect, Dremone Francis, has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Fernando Esqueda.

A man was found dead inside a shed in Midtown, Houston, late Saturday night, as reported by the Houston Police Department.

The brutal murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray has led Senator Ted Cruz and Rep. Troy Nehls to introduce the Justice for Jocelyn Act. This act aims to improve the detention and tracking of illegal immigrants in the U.S. Jocelyn was strangled to death by two men from Venezuela, who entered the country illegally and were later released. Cruz emphasizes that such tragedies are preventable and calls for decisive action to ensure no family endures similar pain.

Bruce Butler, 37, is charged with capital murder. He is accused of shooting and killing Richard Nugent, 38, and RJ Lewis, 66, on June 2.

Keian Alexander Cormier, already in custody for a fentanyl-related murder, has been charged with a second murder in Montgomery County.

The family of Jocelyn Nungaray is holding candlelight vigil to honor the 12-year-old girl whose life was senselessly taken earlier this week.

Two men have been arrested and charged with the horrific murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. Surveillance footage revealed their movements on the day of the crime, leading investigators to crucial evidence. Both men, illegal immigrants from Venezuela, were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol earlier this year.

After several days of searching, two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.