HOUSTON — A woman shot and killed her two young children in a southwest Houston hotel before turning the gun on herself, first responders said on Friday.<\/p>\n
According to an update by Houston Police Department Lt. Larry Crowson, the children were just 6 and 9 years old.<\/p>\n
Crowson said just before noon, officers responded to a Marriott Residence Inn for a shooting call.<\/p>\n
The lieutenant said staff members noticed someone had been in a room since Wednesday and had not been heard from. Once staff members went to check the room, Crowson said they found a 40-year-old woman dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, along with a 6-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy also dead from gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
“Right now, preliminarily, we believe this to be a murder-suicide,” Crowson said. “This does appear to involve mental health issues.”<\/p>\n
SEE ALSO: Grandmother suspected in deaths of 4 grandchildren, daughter: Police<\/a><\/p>\n Crowson encouraged people experiencing mental health issues to call 311 or 211 to get help.<\/p>\n “Very tragic incident today – two children unfortunately killed at a very young age,” he said.<\/p>\n Crowson said it’s unclear when the shooting happened but added that it doesn’t appear that it was on Friday.<\/p>\n Officials did not reveal the identity of the woman or her children.<\/p>\n If you or someone you know are experiencing suicidal, substance use or other mental health crises please call or text the new three digit code at 988. You will reach a trained crisis counselor for free, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can also goto\u00a0988lifeline.org<\/a>\u00a0or dial the current tollfree number 800-273-8255 (TALK).<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON — A woman shot and killed her two young children in a southwest Houston hotel before turning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[128002,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-360434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-128002","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360434","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=360434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}