{"id":458665,"date":"2026-10-07T03:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458665\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T03:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:20:16","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-in-stabbing-death-of-partner-in-ne-houston-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458665\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder in stabbing death of partner in NE Houston, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791343216_572_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 6, 2026 7:21PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A man has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a 23-year-old man, whom authorities said was in an intimate relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Tuesday, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez shared that the incident happened Monday in the 4400 block of Sandydale Lane. Deputies were responding to a welfare check when they found 23-year-old Jose Orozco unresponsive inside the home with multiple stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said Orozco was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Gonzalez said detectives determined that Orozco and the suspect, who has been identified as 20-year-old Jaime Castillo, had been in an intimate relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This case is being investigated as an intimate-partner\/domestic violence homicide,&#8221; Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Castillo was found, taken into custody, and charged with murder. Authorities said Castillo was booked into the Harris County Jail.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock Tuesday, October 6, 2026 7:21PM HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[156933,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-458665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-156933","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458665","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=458665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}