Houston police are asking for the public’s help in the investigation of two men found shot in Buffalo Bayou miles apart but whose deaths they say could be connected.<\/p>\n
On Sept. 29, a passerby alerted police to the\u00a0body of 20-year-old Carlos Tzep Ajpop in the bayou near the southern boundary of Memorial Park, police said in a statement Friday. Three days later, the body of 20-year-old Oliver\u00a0Ortiz was pulled from the bayou in the Magnolia Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n
When police announced on Sept. 30 the discovery of\u00a0Ajpop’s body, they\u00a0said it had “no obvious signs of trauma.” An autopsy later determined that \u00a0Tzep\u00a0Ajpop had been shot, police said.<\/p>\n
Ortiz’s body was seen floating in Buffalo Body and was recovered by the Houston Fire Department, officials said.<\/p>\n
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Science on Friday listed the official cause of death for\u00a0Tzep\u00a0Ajpop as “pending.” The institute’s website didn’t have information about\u00a0Ortiz’s death, but police said Ortiz also had a gunshot wound when his body was recovered.<\/p>\n
Investigators said they believe the two men were killed at the same time and place. They were last seen together Sept. 27\u00a0leaving an apartment complex\u00a0 at 8701 Town Park, police said. They were traveling in separate cars and may have been participating in local car meet-ups.<\/p>\n
Both men’s vehicles were found\u00a0near Keegan Road in the Alief neighborhood, police said.<\/p>\n
Houston police ask that anyone with information call investigators at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston police are asking for the public’s help in the investigation of two men found shot in Buffalo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-461561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461561","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=461561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}