{"id":258284,"date":"2026-04-20T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258284\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:27:14","slug":"houston-suspect-kevin-faux-arrested-in-louisiana-for-capital-murder-of-pregnant-ashanti-allen-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258284\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston suspect Kevin Faux arrested in Louisiana for capital murder of pregnant Ashanti Allen: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776713232_229_kevin-faux.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Kevin Faux (Source: Houston Police Department) <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; The Houston man accused of killing the mother of his unborn child has been arrested in Louisiana after a manhunt.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The U.S. Marshals Service confirms the arrest of Kevin Faux, 24, in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">He is charged with capital murder in the death of 23-year-old Ashanti Allen.<\/p>\n<p>  Missing woman found dead  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jxon69gw1rmplvin.jpg\" alt=\"Missing pregnant Houston woman found dead near park\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Allen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/body-found-chimney-rock-road-southwest-houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was found dead <\/a>on Thursday after being reported missing six days before.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">She had last been seen on April 10 leaving her home near McNee Road and Main Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">She was eight months pregnant and experiencing a high-risk pregnancy at the time of her disappearance, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">On Thursday morning, Houston police and Texas Equusearch discovered Allen&#8217;s body near Chimney Rock Park in southwest Houston.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Houston police later identified Faux \u2013 the father of Allen&#8217;s unborn child \u2013 as the suspect in her death.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Her cause of death is not known at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Houston Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Kevin Faux (Source: Houston Police Department) HOUSTON &#8211; The Houston man accused of killing the mother of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-258284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258284","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=258284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}