{"id":360418,"date":"2026-07-03T22:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360418\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:30:24","slug":"mother-and-kids-killed-in-apparent-hotel-room-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360418\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and kids killed in apparent hotel room murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 40-year-old woman and her two young children were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/crime\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">found<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/crime\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">dead\u00a0Friday<\/a> after an apparent\u00a0murder-suicide at a Houston Marriott Residence Inn near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/health\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">medical center<\/a> and\u00a0NRG Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A mother shot and killed her two kids under age of nine before she took her own life,&#8221; Houston Fire Department Senior Captain Raul D. Reyes said.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Police Department said the deaths were being investigated by its homicide division, and that hotel staff had discovered the\u00a0three bodies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They went in there just to check on the room, and that&#8217;s when they discovered them,&#8221; Lt. Larry Crowson said during a press briefing, adding that the family members looked to have died earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Crowson said the case appeared to involve mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old woman and her two young children were found dead\u00a0Friday after an apparent\u00a0murder-suicide at a Houston Marriott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-360418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360418","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=360418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}