{"id":280164,"date":"2026-05-05T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280164\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:40:07","slug":"welfare-check-finds-four-family-members-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide-in-texas-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280164\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare check finds four family members dead in apparent murder-suicide in Texas home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, Tx. (TNND) \u2014 Two adults and two children were found dead inside a Houston home on Monday, according to the Houston police department.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Police Department said officers responded to a welfare check at around 5:26 p.m. Monday. Police said a babysitter alerted officers, concerned that she hadn&#8217;t heard from the family. <\/p>\n<p>Police identified the two adults and the two children as all family members and believe that the incident is a murder suicide. While the family&#8217;s identities have not yet been released, authorities said the woman was 39, and the kids were an 8-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect in the murder-suicide was said to be 52 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Evidence on scene indicated the incident was a murder-suicide in which the male shot the three victims and then shot himself,&#8221; police authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Tx. (TNND) \u2014 Two adults and two children were found dead inside a Houston home on Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-280164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280164","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=280164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}