{"id":279658,"date":"2026-05-05T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279658\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:49:12","slug":"parents-and-their-2-kids-found-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279658\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents and their 2 kids found dead in apparent murder suicide in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother, father and their two young children were found shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide, according to police in Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A babysitter called police Monday evening and requested a welfare check after not hearing from the family at their Houston home, and all four \u2014 including kids a 4-year-old and 8-year-old \u2014 were found dead inside, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/shooting-river-oaks-home-leaves-4-dead-according-22241650.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Houston Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39283894\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/apparent-murder-suicide-river-oaks-127051511.jpg\" alt=\"Few details have been released about the apparent murder-suicide.\" class=\"wp-image-39283894\"  \/>Few details have been released about the apparent murder-suicide. KHOU<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear who was behind the killings, but police have said it appears to be a murder-suicide. <\/p>\n<p>None of the victims has been identified as police continue to investigate what happened.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor said the family had not lived there long, but she had seen them out and about in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very sad,\u201d that neighbor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/deadly-shooting-river-oaks-kingston-street\/285-7041e81d-859e-470f-926a-ce78b822b5f5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told KHOU<\/a>. \u201cI just shake for the little kids and the family and we don\u2019t know all the details. A lot of people know more, I\u2019m sure, than we know, but it\u2019s just a tragedy when anything like this happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39283892\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/apparent-murder-suicide-river-oaks-127051529.jpg\" alt=\"A 4-year-old and 8-year-old were killed, police said.\" class=\"wp-image-39283892\"  \/>A 4-year-old and 8-year-old were killed, police said. KHOU<\/p>\n<p>One neighbor <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/more-1-person-dead-shooting-kingston-street-river-oaks-area-hpd-says\/19039725\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told ABC 13<\/a> that the mother was pregnant, although police have not confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother, father and their two young children were found shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,56,15775,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-279658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime","tag-houston","tag-murder-suicide","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279658","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=279658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}