{"id":448901,"date":"2026-09-27T00:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448901\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:42:15","slug":"14-year-old-arrested-accused-of-killing-17-year-old-last-month-in-ne-harris-county-sheriffs-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448901\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old arrested, accused of killing 17-year-old last month in NE Harris County, sheriff&#8217;s office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; As the Houston area grapples with back-to-back incidents involving teen gun violence, an update to a story from August has a 14-year-old facing a murder charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Aug. 22, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/18-year-olds-body-found-severe-trauma-pronounced-dead-harris-county-sheriffs-office-says\/19722918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" dir=\"ltr\">ABC13 reported the discovery of a teen&#8217;s body with severe trauma inside a car<\/a>. Less than a week later, the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office updated the incident, saying that a male of approximately 18 years of age had suffered traumatic injuries, &#8220;believed to have been from a firearm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In the latest update in the case announced on Friday afternoon, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said that the victim was identified as 17-year-old Tavian Soileau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to Gonzalez, a 14-year-old was arrested on Thursday and charged with murder for his involvement in the death of Soileau. Gonzalez did not identify the teen or say if there were any others involved in the fatal incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The announcement comes the same week as two deadly shootings involving teenagers rattled the Houston area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Tuesday, a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/westfield-high-school-shooting-14-year-old-accused-fatally-hs-student-charged-murder-hcso-says\/19867117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" dir=\"ltr\">14-year-old allegedly shot and killed a 15-year-old just outside Westfield High School<\/a> in the Spring area, according to HCSO. He was arrested on Wednesday and charged with murder on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Friday morning, a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/shooting-investigation-westbury-high-school-houston-police-say\/19871156\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" dir=\"ltr\">17-year-old Westbury High School student-athlete was shot and killed near campus<\/a> as well, prompting the cancellation of homecoming celebrations. On Friday afternoon, the search for the suspect was still underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SEE ALSO: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/5-arrested-connection-assault-left-14-year-old-girl-airlifted-livingston-high-school-police-say\/19868665\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" dir=\"ltr\">5 arrested in connection with assault that led to 14-year-old girl airlifted at Livingston HS: PD<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities have not connected the deadly shootings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">13 Investigates found that the statewide Texas Juvenile Justice Department has seen a 45% increase in the number of juveniles accused of crimes involving firearms in the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; As the Houston area grapples with back-to-back incidents involving teen gun violence, an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[154604,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-448901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-154604","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448901","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=448901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}