{"id":279081,"date":"2026-05-05T02:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279081\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:36:18","slug":"river-oaks-shooting-father-pregnant-mother-2-children-killed-in-shooting-on-kingston-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279081\/","title":{"rendered":"River Oaks shooting: Father, pregnant mother, 2 children killed in shooting on Kingston Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police are on the scene following a deadly shooting where officials said multiple people were killed, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Kingston Street shooting: Father, pregnant mother, 2 children killed in shooting <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to Houston police, the shooting happened just before 5:30 p.m. near the intersection of Avalon Place and Kingston Street in the River Oaks area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials have confirmed four people are dead on the scene. A father, a pregnant mother, and two children, aged four and eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/eygnzosuvq0vger2.jpg\" alt=\"Houston police investigating possible murder-suicide\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Houston police are saying the shooting is a possible murder-suicide.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Authorities said the children were last seen on Sunday night and were found in their beds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials also said the mother had dinner with a relative on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">We&#8217;re told a babysitter found the victims on Monday.\u00a0<\/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=\"\">Officials have not confirmed the names of the victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">This is a breaking news story. We&#8217;ll keep you up-to-date with the very latest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police Department<\/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\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/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":"HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police are on the scene following a deadly shooting where officials said multiple people were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-279081","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-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279081","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=279081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}