{"id":389478,"date":"2026-07-28T19:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389478\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:04:17","slug":"man-found-dead-in-clear-lake-area-home-with-injury-to-back-of-his-head-houston-police-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389478\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in Clear Lake-area home with injury to back of his head, Houston Police Department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Police said the man was found dead in his bedroom with a laceration to his head.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, July 28, 2026 5:55PM<\/p>\n<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Police said an investigation is underway after a man was found dead in his home in the Clear Lake area on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Houston Police Department said that officers responded to a home located in the 16200 block of Seahorse Drive at about 9:35 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators said the 38-year-old man was found inside his bedroom with a laceration to the back of his head. Houston Fire Department paramedics responded to the scene, where they pronounced the victim dead, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said the identity of the victim is pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, with the cause of death to be determined by an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police said the investigation remains ongoing. HPD said anyone with information on this incident is advised to contact the department&#8217;s Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said the man was found dead in his bedroom with a laceration to his head. Tuesday, July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[137203,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-389478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-137203","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389478","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=389478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}