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First responders in Houston responded to a report of a possible shooting in the 4100 Block of Barberry Street in Sunnyside, Houston on August 9, 2022, just after 10:30 p.m. at the King's Row Apartments, a housing development in southeast Houston. Upon arrival, first responders found a female that had been grazed by a stray bullet while in a vehicle. https://twitter.com/houstonpolice/status/1557250076728332288

A store clerk may face charges after shooting and killing a man while defending himself at a neighborhood corner store in northeast Houston. The incident occurred in the Trinity Gardens neighborhood at the Lavender Food Mart located in the 8000 block of Lavender Street at Weaver Street. Police say around 8 p.m. the suspect, a 36-year-old man walked into the store. Police say they believe the man was intoxicated with some type of substance, but it is not clear at this time what this substance could have been. At some point, the man started to assault the convenience store clerk behind the register. The store clerk, who is 23 years old, then grabbed a gun and shot the man. Northeast Patrol Officers with the Houston Police Department were then dispatched to the scene and found the m...

A federal judge in California ruled that CVS Pharmacy may have violated patients' privacy rights by forcing them to obtain their HIV/AIDS medicine either by mail order or at a local CVS pharmacy. The judge dismissed CVS' motion to dismiss. In the ruling, filed in the Northern District Court of California last week on August 5, 2022, the plaintiffs allege that CVS "have discriminatorily denied them benefits under their employer-offered prescription drug benefit plans. Plaintiffs allege that their benefit plans allow them to obtain their HIV/AIDS medications at favorable “in-network” prices only via mail or a CVS pharmacy". If the employees wanted to fulfill their prescriptions outside of their employer, they would be forced to pay higher prices since this would no longer be "in-netwo...

Firefighters with the Houston Fire Department responded to a house fire in the 6300 block of Joe Louis Lane at around 7 p.m. on August 8, 2022.

Police responded to a report of a dog being shot in north Houston on August 8, 2022, around 8 p.m. in the 7300 Block of Sandle Street by West Montgomery Street.

A 21-year-old woman is dead after Houston Police say she was ambushed when coming back from a store. The woman who has yet to be identified as police notify the next of kin was walking back from the neighborhood corner store just before 2 a.m. on August 8, 2022 in the 3700 Block of Faulkner in Houston's 3rd Ward. As she was nearing her home, a woman, jumped out at the victim who was walking by some parked cars and began shooting police say. It is not known how many rounds were fired, but according to initial reports, she might have been struck at least three times. Paramedics with the Houston Fire Department found her alive and rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she later died of her wounds. The suspect, who hiding between some parked cars fled the scene after shooting ...

A fatal accident occurred just before 10:30 p.m. on August 7, 2022, on 59 the southwest freeway at Beechnut. Police had all lanes of the freeway blocked off while they conducted their investigation. https://twitter.com/houstonpolice/status/1556487387479511041 This is an ongoing investigation and we will update this page as soon as we have more information.

A man that we caught on camera last week chasing a mini-cooper in the Heights area of Houston last Wednesday, has been connected to another road rage incident that also took place in the Heights at the end of June 2022. https://www.youtube.com/embed/jCLG0nSF6q4 The man, who drives a black Ford King Ranch pickup truck was caught on camera, yelling racist obscenities over a parking spot outside a restaurant by White Oak Dr. According to E. Rivera, who was with her kids at the time, the man was intoxicated and became upset when they wouldn't move from a parking space that he wanted after the family told them they were not leaving yet. At that point, Rivera stated that he started to curse at her kids because they were inside of the vehicle at the time and were not moving the vehicle...

A suspect was shot after leading police on a chase from Hitchcock, Texas in Galveston County to the 500 Block of N Shepherd in Houston. The chase started just after 1 a.m. and ended just before 2 a.m. on August 7, 2022. The suspect was shot after hitting an approaching officer with his vehicle. https://www.youtube.com/embed/U5unxHD3gyk According to Chief Wilmon Smith of the Hitchcock Police Department, a police officer in Hitchcock, attempted to make a traffic stop at about 1:15 a.m. The suspect, a man, did not stop and fled from the officer. He made his way to I-45 and headed northbound towards Houston at a high rate of speed. Eventually, Chief Smith stated, a police unit was able to get in front of the suspect's vehicle and was able to stop the vehicle. The suspect then decide...

One person is dead after an accident occurred in the 3900 block of Saunders Rd. in north Houston on Saturday morning. The accident occurred just before 1 a.m. on August 6, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/embed/0BSvosJpQS4 Officers with the Houston Police Department believe that this was a single-vehicle accident and do not have any suspects at this time but have released that a man was deceased. An overnight security guard at the nearby grocery store, Fiesta, (a popular grocery chain in the Houston area) stated that a lot of "kids speed down that street". He did not witness the accident. Police had the area blocked off to thru traffic, and were canvassing the area as they try to piece everything together to determine what happened. The age and the identity of the victim have ye...