{"id":360519,"date":"2026-07-04T00:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360519\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T00:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:25:20","slug":"mother-2-kids-killed-in-suspected-murder-suicide-at-braeswood-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360519\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, 2 kids killed in suspected murder-suicide at Braeswood hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/laockunfqwe079xx.jpg\" alt=\"Mother, children killed in suspected murder-suicide | Houston Live and Local \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/laockunfqwe079xx.jpg\" alt=\"Mother, children killed in suspected murder-suicide | Houston Live and Local \" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A mother and her two children are dead after a reported murder-suicide at a hotel in Houston&#8217;s Braeswood area.<\/p>\n<p>   Murder-suicide at Houston hotel <\/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 Fire Captain Reyes confirmed the shooting happened at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/7807+Kirby+Dr,+Houston,+TX+77030\/@29.7086345,-95.4406762,13.23z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640c01647497c37:0x749edd4ebf6071ed!8m2!3d29.6941529!4d-95.413548!16s%2Fg%2F11c2b7q1bt?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Residence Inn by Marriot on Kirby Drive<\/a> near Main Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police confirmed they were called to the hotel shortly before noon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2wqgai1wizjykyb6.jpg\" alt=\"FULL: Houston police update on murder-suicide involving mother, 2 kids\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2wqgai1wizjykyb6.jpg\" alt=\"FULL: Houston police update on murder-suicide involving mother, 2 kids\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to a lieutenant, a 40-year-old mother shot her two children, a six-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy, before turning the gun on herself.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Hotel staff said they had a guest in the room since Wednesday who they hadn&#8217;t heard from. Staff members used a pass to unlock the door to the room and found the three inside.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/video-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/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 one involved has been identified.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It&#8217;s not clear if the shooting happened on Friday or sometime earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Fire and Police Departments.<\/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\/braeswood-place\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braeswood Place<\/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 mother and her two children are dead after a reported murder-suicide at a hotel in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74316,1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-360519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-braeswood-place","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\/360519","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=360519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}