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February 2, 2007Iraq Whistleblower Sues
July 16, 2008HPD Cleared in Death of Alleged CIA Agent
July 24, 2008Last Suspect In Shooting Of Historic Officer Nabbed
July 31, 2008Jimmy's Justice
Years after her son's capital murder verdict, Rachel Moore found evidence that he fired in self-defense. But they're still trying to find a way out of prison.
July 27, 2000Bayou Body County: Killed While Cleaning Up Some Beer Cans
Photo courtesy HCSOAfter less than three months of investigating, the Houston police think they've finally got their man. Investigators have charged 23-year-old Kermit Ladell Johnson with murder for allegedly killing man in a parking lot in March.Police accuse Johnson of shooting 39-year-old Steven Torres several times in the upper body early in the morning on March 10 outside an apartment building on the 4200 block of Wilmington. Residents heard gunshots in the parking lot, police say, and then
June 2, 2009Shooting In the New Year
December 29, 1994Department of Self-Promotion
November 13, 1997Two Bullets in the Back
July 9, 1998Investigating the Investigation
October 29, 1998Carl Landry Shot in Leg, Not by Own Gun
Photo by dubswede Carl Landry, the second year Rockets forward, was shot in the leg while driving home early this morning. And, no, he did not Plaxico Burress himself in the leg, somebody else shot him. The shooting happened at about 2:30 this morning. Landry was heading home after getting back into town from the team's win in New Orleans. According to Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith, Landry was driving his SUV southbound when a northbound vehicle swerved into him. He got out to
March 18, 2009Carl Landry Shot in Leg, Not by Own Gun
Photo by dubswede Carl Landry, the second year Rockets forward, was shot in the leg while driving home early this morning. And, no, he did not Plaxico Burress himself in the leg, somebody else shot him. The shooting happened at about 2:30 this morning. Landry was heading home after getting back into town from the team's win in New Orleans. According to Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith, Landry was driving his SUV southbound when a northbound vehicle swerved into him. He got out to
March 18, 2009Huntzville's School-Shooting Song Raises an Even More Disturbing Issue
January 8, 2009The Parallax View
This one goes out to the conspiracy theorists
October 2, 2008In Spite of Everything
The Suicide Kings have a show-and-tell for school shooters
March 13, 2008Margaret Coel
This author mixes mystery with history — and maybe a drink or two
September 20, 2007Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Country Music Pistol Packers Hall of Fame
April 19, 2007The Shocking Truth
Houston police are looking to Tasers as a panacea. But nothing's perfect.
October 28, 2004Parts Unknown
Did Donnie Riley kill Tarron Dixon, or was he shooting at someone else in a different Houston neighborhood that night 13 years ago?
October 14, 2004Collision Course
A lawsuit challenges deputies who shoot fleeing drivers
April 29, 2004Exit Wounds
The gunman fled. Her point-blank panic hasn't.
April 1, 2004An Absolute Maybe
There's little doubt that Johnnie Bernal was not a really good guy. The question remains, though, how bad was he?
August 8, 2002Their First 100 Years
Will the Chronicle's celebration turn up the headlines of August 24, 1917?
August 30, 2001Raising Cain Against Abel
There wasn't room enough on the family's West Texas ranch for two feuding brothers. So Cody Cardwell took up arms against his older sibling.
November 16, 2000Line Of Defense
Despite a troubled Houston past, attorney Catherine Mehaffey Shelton says she's no killer
April 13, 2000Dead, Dead, Dead
May 6, 1999Bayou Body Count: Nudity, Crack Pipes & A Double-Murder-Suicide
The big news this week in Bayou Body Count is the three dead family members League City police are investigating as a possible murder-murder-suicide. Lewis Cantrell Jr. and his wife Gayle Cantrell were found shot to death in their living room on the 2900 block of Chinaberry Park Lane. Lewis Cantrell III, 26, joined them on the floor, a pistol next to his body. Two of the Cantrells' other adult children were in the home when the shooting occurred Wednesday evening. As soon as they heard gunfire,
May 15, 2009Bayou Body Count: Absolute Nightmare For Some Kids
The Portillo children walked into a nightmare. They were coming home from school Wednesday afternoon. But when they entered their southwest Houston home at 12706 Corona, they found their parents, Antonio and Rosa Portillo, dead. Houston police say both parents had gunshot wounds. They were pronounced dead at the scene. The children told police that their parents had been arguing earlier in the day. A single pistol was found by their bodies. Police are continuing to investigate.View Larger Map
May 28, 2009Bayou Body Count: An Attempt To Steal A Car Ends Badly
Texas and the right to defend oneself with deadly force seem to go hand-in-hand. And so it was for one man and his wife on Saturday along the 1100 block of Langwick. Houston police say a man shot and killed Darryl Milton Franklin Jr., 37, after Franklin tried to steal his car around 6:25 in the morning. Franklin was breaking into the couple's car when they noticed what was happening and rushed over, dragging Franklin out of the vehicle and telling him they were calling the cops, police say. Fran
June 9, 2009Bayou Body Count: When The Current Girlfriend and Estranged Wife Fight, Nothing Good Happens
A Harris County Constable reserve deputy has been charged with killing a man outside a bar early Friday morning at 2708 North Shepherd.According to Houston police, reserve deputy Jose Castillo, 39, was outside Buffalo Fred's Icehouse at around 2 am when he is accused of shooting Angel Erevia Jr., 31, four times, once each in the abdomen, back and both arms. During the night, Erevia's girlfriend and estranged wife began fighting at the bar. When the icehouse closed for the night, the estranged wi
June 10, 2009Bayou Body Count: A Suspect Sketch Released In Double Murder
Courtesy HPDHouston police released today a composite sketch of the apparent shooter in a double murder at a Phillips 66 gas station last week. One of the victims, Mohammad Aziz Zubair, 55, called 911 before he was shot, providing police with a brief description of the suspect, police say. Shahzad Anwer Quraishi, 57, was also killed during the robbery. Investigators describe the shooter, who had been "hanging out near the store," as a 19- to 22-year-old black man, about five-foot, seven-in
June 12, 2009Get Shot By A Metro Cop, You'll Get A Grilling Instead Of An Apology
We weren't really surprised to learn that the saga of The Great Metro Shooting is once again grabbing headlines, this time with the news that the bystander who was shot now plans on suing Metro. Guadalupe Acosta, a nanny, told the Chron she was shot in the shoulder as she was pushing the toddler she cared for around the Rice University jogging path. And she said no one from Metro ever apologized or expressed sympathy. Since Metro ain't talking, Hair Balls can only speculate that that was a legal
June 19, 2009Metro Cop No-Billed In Shooting; Agency's Top Cop Says He Did Apologize To Victim
Photo by Craig Malisow A Harris County grand jury on Monday no-billed the Metro officer who shot and killed a knife-weilding man who had threatened at least one Metro passenger. Accidentally shot in the May 5 incident was Guadalupe Acosta, who subsequently sued Metro. Metro Police Chief Tom Lambert revealed the grand jury's decision not to indict Officer R.L. Harrington at a press conference today. "We're confident that Officer Harrington did exactly what he was suppo
June 23, 2009Bayou Body Count: Officer Down, And Brother Vs. Brother
Houston police have charged a pair of men for allegedly killing an undercover officer on Tuesday on the 6700 block of Hillcroft. A 16-year-old girl has also been charged for her alleged involvement.According to police, officer Henry Canales of the auto-theft division, who was working undercover, was negotiating a deal to buy stolen property from Xiomara Rosales Mendez, Andres Maldonado Nava, Roberto Pedroza Carillo and the teen. Suddenly, Carillo pulled out a gun while Mendez and Nava tried to s
June 26, 2009Bayou Body Count: Some Arrests, And Sex Gone Wrong
Houston police have arrested Harry Dwight Williams for allegedly shooting a 19-year-old man and his girlfriend earlier this month at McCullough Park. Police say that James Smith, 19, was walking through the park with his girlfriend when he saw Williams, and the two men started arguing. When they started exchanging blows, Williams pulled out a pistol and shot Smith and his girlfriend multiple times.Smith died at the scene, and his girlfriend was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital in critical cond
June 26, 2009Bayou Body Count: Two Cars, Lots Of Bullets
Courtesy HPDSWAT officers with the Houston Police Department raided a house early Monday morning, looking for Francisco Odilon Lopez, a suspect in a shooting that left one man dead and another injured. Lopez, however, was not there and police are still looking for him. According to the police department, the shooting happened on June 18 when Lopez was at a house owned by Abelardo Villarreal, at 617 Woolworth St., and the two men started arguing. Lopez pulled out a pistol and shot Villarreal seve
June 25, 2009Bayou Body Count: Honey, There's A Dead Guy In The Bathroom
A couple living at the Shadow Ridge Apartments at 5810 Fondren awoke form a peaceful sleep early Sunday morning to the loud boom of gunshots. They bolted upright and saw two men running out of their apartment, according to Houston police. The couple then got out of bed and began looking around their home. They found a dead man on the floor of their bathroom, riddled with gunshot wounds.Police are investigating and say they are on the lookout for the suspects, described only as two Hispanic men i
June 30, 2009This Just In: A Wiffle-Ball Bat Is Not A Deadly Weapon
Partying in Beaumont -- does it get any better? The smoky industrial fumes, the Golden Triangle aura, the knowledge that at any moment you could up and visit the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum if you wanted to: It's what makes life in Beaumont so good.As long as you keep the Wiffle-Ball Bats safely put away.A woman was shot in the chest over the weekend at a party in Beaumont; she's expected to survive. According to the Beaumont Enterprise: [A] fight broke out, and one partygoer tried to h
June 30, 2009Bayou Body Count: Guy Walks Into A Bar...
It sounds like something out of the movies: from out of nowhere an unknown man in dark clothes storms into a bar, guns blazing. But according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, that was the scene at an after-hours club early Thursday morning. Deputy Thomas Gilliland tells Body Count that at about 5:20 a.m. a Hispanic man dressed in a black button-down shirt, blue jeans and a white t-shirt draped over his face like a mask walked into the Eclipse club at 960 W. FM 1960 shooting. Witnes
July 6, 2009Breaking News: Gunplay at Trae Day
Ninety-eight percent of Trae Day went exactly as advertised. There were moonwalks and video-game trailers for the kids, local merchants selling various CDs and DVDs, a few actual celebrities and a general feeling of community pride throughout. Then they started shooting. At approximately 8:30 p.m. - 30 minutes after Trae announced to the crowd that the Fire Marshal had shut down Trae Day - roughly ten to 15 shots were fired in the TSU stadium parking lot. We'll take a guess and say it was some s
July 22, 2009Gunplay at Trae Day
Trae Day, the one-year anniversary of the City of Houston's proclamation honoring the local rapper for his community-minded efforts, did not end in smiles and good feelings, but gunshots. Hair Balls is still finding out exactly what went on, but click here for what we do know.
July 22, 2009The TSU Shootings in Twitterese: "Stay Classy, Houston"
Video by nosvideocrew Looks like things in the Trae Day shootings are about where they were last night. The Houston Police Department's homicide unit is involved - although no one was killed - but letting TSU detectives handle the investigation. Rocks Off's Shea Serrano spoke with an official at TSU PD's Office of Communication, who confirmed that six people were shot, one of whom is believed to be a TSU student, but very little else. The department would not say if they believe the shootings w
July 23, 2009The TSU Shootings in Twitterese: "Stay Classy, Houston"
Video by nosvideocrew Looks like things in the Trae Day shootings are about where they were last night. The Houston Police Department's homicide unit is involved -- although no one was killed -- but letting TSU detectives handle the investigation. Hair Ball's Shea Serrano spoke with an official at TSU PD's Office of Communication, who confirmed that six people were shot, one of whom is believed to be a TSU student, but very little else. The department would not say if they believe the shooting
July 23, 2009Bayou Body Count: A Cold Case Solved
After 15 long years, Houston police detectives believe they've finally found their man. Michael Deshawn Winfrey, 36, has been charged with capital murder for allegedly shooting a man who was protecting his son at a pay phone at 6603 Fuqua on April 24, 1994.Police say Jeffrey Brown, 30, was driving along with his daughter, 8, and son, 7, when he pulled into a parking lot to use a pay phone. As he was stepping out of his car, Winfrey appeared and allegedly pointed a gun at Brown's son, telling
July 28, 2009Bayou Body Count: World's Vaguest Murder
courtesy of HPDThe two suspected knife menHouston police are looking for a pair of men suspected of stabbing 22-year-old Vicente Ramirez to death early Saturday morning. Police say Ramirez and some friends were at a bar at around 4:30 a.m. at 5901 Hillcroft when they got into a fight with a bunch of unknown men. During the fight Ramirez and his two friends were stabbed, police say. Ramirez died and the other two were taken to Ben Taub General Hospital so doctors could treat their multiple wo
August 5, 2009Bayou Body Count: Weekend Leftovers, Including River Oaks
During the past few days, Houston-area police and sheriff's deputies have dealt with an unusually high number of murder-suicides. Sunday nearly capped off the week with another. This one, however, was thankfully less successful and had the added element of attempted patricide. Eugene Hawk, 59, and his 21-year-old son, Raymond Hawk, were at their home at 3437 Ella Lee Lane on Sunday afternoon when they started arguing, police say. When the elder Hawk called police, his son yanked out a gun
August 18, 2009Bayou Body Count: They're Finding Dead Bodies All Over The Place
For the past four days, local cops and sheriff's deputies have been finding dead bodies all over the place. From ditches and cars to living rooms and the middle of streets, they seem to be popping up everywhere.All the police have are just a few leads, no suspects, and a growing pile of cold bodies at the morgue.On Monday at about 5:30 a.m., Harris County deputies found a Hispanic man who had been stabbed to death lying in a ditch just near 13100 Reeveston Road. He looked to be about 25 to 30
September 9, 2009Bayou Body Count: Sometimes The Cases Are Easy, Sometimes Not
courtesy of HCSOSandra MartinezIt may seem like it sometimes, but not all murders in Houston go unsolved.Take, for instance, a case last Friday inside a home at 10727 Lumber Ridge Trail. Sandra Martinez and her husband, Cesar Barrera, had been arguing most of the night when at about 9:30 p.m. Barrera decided to go to bed.Simple enough.But then Martinez allegedly snuck into the closet, took Barrera's handgun and then put it to use. Investigators say Martinez, 36, shot her husband in the head w
September 10, 2009Banning Books in HISD... Plus: Metro cop involved in fatal shooting kills himself
October 1, 2009Bayou Body Count: Mistakes Equals Murders
No one likes being punished for something they didn't do. Even more so when the punishment is a series of deadly bullet wounds. But that's exactly what happened to Quincey Taylor, Houston police say. A little more than three months ago, police got a call about a shooting that was happening at the Hollow Park Apartments at 2550 Joel Wheaton Road. When officers arrived, they found Taylor, 18, in a nearby grassy area. He had been shot to death several times. Detectives began investigating
November 2, 2009
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