{"id":373702,"date":"2026-07-15T06:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373702\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:36:17","slug":"houston-rapper-judy-world-fatally-stabbed-woman-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373702\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston rapper Judy World fatally stabbed; woman charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Houston woman has been charged with manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of Houston rapper\u00a0Krystal Jordan, better known as Judy World, according to court records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Wynita Rodgers, 28, of Houston, has been charged with\u00a0manslaughter in connection with fatally stabbing Jordan with a knife on July 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jordan, 28, performed as Judy World and Play Girl Judy, and was part of Houston&#8217;s independent rap scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The stabbing was reported just before 10 p.m. on Saturday at an address in the 11900 block of Bat Sheva Lane, according to a report from the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Houston police say a bystander was performing first aid on Jordan when officers arrived. Houston Fire Department responders transported Jordan to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers was arrested at the scene without incident and booked into the Harris County Jail with a $100,000 bond, according to court records. An attorney for Rodgers has not been confirmed\u00a0yet, according to the Harris County Public Defender&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Fan reactions to her death flooded the comments on her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/judyworld____\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram <\/a>page. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-krystal-jordans-family-after-tragic-loss?attribution_id=sl:06d7d822-a434-42dc-9561-29521239778a&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1783980108&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp20_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">GoFundMe<\/a> page established by Jordan&#8217;s sister to help pay for funeral expenses\u00a0had raised more than $7,000 in donations\u00a0as of Monday afternoon<\/p>\n<p>Keiara Walker said the death has left her family \u201cshattered\u201d and Jordan\u2019s 10-year-old daughter without a mother.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Chronicle has reached out to the Houston Police Department for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Houston woman has been charged with manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of Houston rapper\u00a0Krystal Jordan, better known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-373702","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\/373702","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=373702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}