Police confirmed<\/a> a woman was pronounced deceased at the scene, and a man is hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n Another man is said to be detained in connection.<\/p>\n HPD Lieutenant Larry Crowson tells FOX 26 that a shooting call came in at around 1 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n Officials later learned that a 90-year-old man was at his 87-year-old friend’s home and had allegedly shot and killed the friend’s health aide, a woman believed to be in her 40s.<\/p>\n The suspect was then followed into the garage by a friend of the aide, a man also possibly in his 40s. A gunshot went off inside the garage, and the 90-year-old was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his head.<\/p>\n The man who followed the suspect is said to be giving a statement to detectives.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n No one involved has been identified at this time.<\/p>\n Detectives are working to determine whether the suspect shot himself or if the aide’s friend fired.<\/p>\n Details on what up to the initial shooting are currently unknown.<\/p>\n The Source: Houston Police<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Houston<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – Police say an elderly man was shot Monday afternoon after shooting and killing his friend’s health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450962,"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-450961","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\/450961","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=450961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Elderly](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3xzm0zgduhq3ofog.jpg\")
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