{"id":428113,"date":"2026-09-06T15:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428113\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:10:58","slug":"person-found-dead-in-trash-can-near-apartment-complex-in-third-ward-houston-police-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428113\/","title":{"rendered":"Person found dead in trash can near apartment complex in Third Ward, Houston Police Department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The Houston Police Department is investigating a death on Anita Street in the Third Ward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers were called to the scene due to reports of shots being fired and someone trying to put a body in a trash can, according to HPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators said when they arrived, they found a body in a trash can in the parking lot of an apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Houston police are unsure of how the person died, but there was a trail of blood that led investigators to an apartment, according to HPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It was hard to tell the kind of trauma that was caused. We couldn&#8217;t tell if it was a gunshot or blunt trauma. Investigators are there right now. When they start examining the body, we&#8217;ll be able to tell more,&#8221; HPD Lieutenant Willkens said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When officers arrived, the person wouldn&#8217;t come out, so they forced the door open and took them into custody, according to HPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Houston police told ABC13 that they are also speaking with another person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Both people being questioned are persons of interest and not under arrest at this time, according to HPD.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Police Department is investigating a death on Anita Street in the Third Ward. Officers were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[148792,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-428113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-148792","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428113","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=428113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}