{"id":285596,"date":"2026-05-09T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:32:18","slug":"houston-homicide-investigation-employee-found-dead-at-alief-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285596\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston homicide investigation: Employee found dead at Alief business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0ajyfqr6tkq21emv.jpg\" alt=\"Employee found dead inside Houston business | Full press conference\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police are investigating after an employee at an Alief business was found dead on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">His death is being investigated as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police were called to the business in a shopping center near Bellaire Boulevard and Turtlewood Drive around noon.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/video-47-e1778271811377.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to police, an employee at the business went to check on another employee who works overnight because they hadn\u2019t heard from him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The overnight employee was found dead in the kitchen area. Police say he had blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police say his car also appears to be missing.<\/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=\"\">No one involved has been identified. There is no description of a suspect at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It\u2019s unclear what time the man\u2019s death occurred, but police believe it was sometime overnight. According to police, two witnesses reported coming by at night when it was supposed to be open, but found the doors locked. However, police say the backdoor was not locked.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police did not name the business but said it appears to always be open, serves drinks and food and has games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police<\/p>\n<p>    <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><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\/us\/tx\/houston\/alief\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alief<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police are investigating after an employee at an Alief business was found dead on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[41427,1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-285596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-alief","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\/285596","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=285596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}