{"id":393498,"date":"2026-07-31T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393498\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:36:20","slug":"61-year-old-accused-in-teens-2025-houston-heights-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393498\/","title":{"rendered":"61-year-old accused in teen&#8217;s 2025 Houston Heights murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A now 61-year-old man is accused of allegedly killing a 16-year-old in the Houston Heights area last year.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston Heights murder: Man accused of killing teen <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityofhouston.news\/3rd-update-suspect-arrested-charged-in-2025-fatal-stabbing-at-4512-katy-freeway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Houston Police say<\/a> 61-year-old Marcus Fernandez is charged with murder for the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/police\/nr\/2025\/oct\/nr251003-2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">16-year-old Franklin Torres-Concho.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say Fernandez is already in custody for separate charges.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/marcus-franklin.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">(Photos courtesy of Houston Police) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Torres-Concho was found stabbed in late September 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police were called for a person down in an empty parking lot near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/4512+Katy+Fwy,+Houston,+TX+77007\/@29.7815528,-95.4152793,15.5z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640c74e62414f37:0x2caedff6275379cd!8m2!3d29.7780636!4d-95.407082!16s%2Fg%2F11cslrhhp6?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I-10 Katy Freeway and Patterson Street<\/a>. Torres-Councho was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/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=\"\">Other details about this case are not available at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police<\/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\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/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 now 61-year-old man is accused of allegedly killing a 16-year-old in the Houston Heights area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-393498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","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\/393498","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=393498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}