{"id":301960,"date":"2026-05-20T21:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:32:14","slug":"man-accused-of-killing-his-older-brother-in-midtown-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301960\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing his older brother in Midtown parking garage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A man is in custody for allegedly killing his brother in Houston&#8217;s Midtown area over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston crime: Man accused of brother&#8217;s murder <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston Police say 46-year-old Damen Jerome Lee has been charged with murder for the death of his brother, 53-year-old Henry Lee.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6280e461-image_480.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Damen Lee (Photo courtesy of Houston Police Department) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Henry Lee was reportedly found in a &#8220;suspicious vehicle&#8221; in a parking garage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2000+Crawford+St,+Houston,+TX+77002\/@29.7479917,-95.3710594,15.25z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640bf16ece5abc1:0x93c9d6254aa62cf4!8m2!3d29.7459758!4d-95.3661729!16s%2Fg%2F11bw3xk6vt?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on Crawford Street near I-45<\/a>. Police were called at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday and found the victim in the backseat with a stab wound.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityofhouston.news\/update-person-of-interest-sought-in-fatal-stabbing-at-2000-crawford-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Police later shared a photo<\/a> in search of a person of interest in the case.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to their update on Wednesday, Damen was identified as the person of interest and detained. After being interviewed by detectives, the Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s Office accepted the murder charge.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No other details are available at this time.<\/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\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" 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-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/midtown\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Midtown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A man is in custody for allegedly killing his brother in Houston&#8217;s Midtown area over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,21071,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-301960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-midtown","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301960","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=301960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}