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Woman shot, killed on West 20th Street <\/p>\nHOUSTON – The suspect accused of killing a woman during a shooting in the Heights then leading police on a chase has been arrested and charged, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n
Harris County court records state Darius Dewayne Hall, 18, has been charged with capital murder, evading arrest, and tampering with physical evidence. His received $150,000 bond for both the evading and tampering charge. Hall had bond denied the capital murder charge.<\/p>\n
Woman shot, killed on West 20th Street <\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
Houston police were called around 11:45 p.m. on Friday about a shooting on West 20th Street near Lawrence Street<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n When officers arrived, they say they found a 61-year-old woman shot on the sidewalk. She was taken to a hospital, but was later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n Police say the woman had parked her vehicle and was walking to her friend’s home. It’s believed she was shot during a robbery. A vehicle connected to the woman was nowhere to be seen, officials reported. The owner was found, and they reported the vehicle missing.<\/p>\n Multiple law enforcement agencies tracked the vehicle down and a chase ensued, according to police. After a while, the chase came to an end and Hall allegedly barricaded himself inside an empty apartment on Southwest Freeway. Hall was eventually taken into custody.<\/p>\n Police confirmed that the shooting and the chase were connected. The suspect is now in custody.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Court records show Hall was placed on community supervision on Oct. 9, 2024 for previous charges, including evading arrest, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, aggravated robbery, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His supervision was scheduled to last until Oct. 8, 2027.<\/p>\n He was sentenced to 10 years at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department that was probated for three years.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Houston<\/a>Heights<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – The suspect accused of killing a woman during a shooting in the Heights then leading police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,1988,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-196986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-heights","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}