{"id":452399,"date":"2026-09-30T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452399\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:38:10","slug":"vivian-savella-killed-mother-accused-of-killing-4-year-old-girl-amid-custody-battle-in-houston-police-and-attorney-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452399\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Savella killed: Mother accused of killing 4-year-old girl amid custody battle in Houston, police and attorney say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 4-year-old girl is dead after a shooting in west Houston on Tuesday evening, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n

\"KTRK<\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 6:41PM<\/p>\n

HOUSTON — A 4-year-old girl is dead after she was shot by her mother after a custody hearing on Tuesday, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n

The shooting happened at 5:45 p.m. at 300 Terra Reserve on the city’s west side.<\/p>\n

The girl was identified as Vivian Savella by the family’s attorney.<\/p>\n

Police said Vivian was found shot to death and her mother allegedly turned the gun on herself but survived.<\/p>\n

The family’s attorney said in a statement that her dad trusted the courts, followed every order, and waited for the process to work.<\/p>\n

Sources close to the family told ABC Houston affiliate KTRK that a family court judge had just granted custody of Vivian to her father, and she was supposed to be turned over to him Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Homicide investigators spoke to the stepfather and childcare aide, who were at home at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 4-year-old girl is dead after a shooting in west Houston on Tuesday evening, according to the Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[155507,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-452399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-155507","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452399","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=452399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}