{"id":479577,"date":"2026-10-28T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479577\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:52:08","slug":"taft-police-officer-found-shot-to-death-in-houston-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479577\/","title":{"rendered":"Taft police officer found shot to death in Houston apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAFT, Texas \u2014 A Taft police officer found dead in his Houston apartment last week was killed by multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The department says 36-year-old Daniel Trujillo had more than one gunshot wound when officers found him on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/honoring-daniel-trujillos-life-and-memory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a GoFundMe page <\/a>posted by his family, Trujillo was murdered with his baby boy nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Trujillo worked for the Taft Police Department for three years and commuted back and forth for work.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Police Department is asking anyone with information on his death to contact its homicide division at 713-308-3600 or Houston Police Department&#8217;s Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAFT, Texas \u2014 A Taft police officer found dead in his Houston apartment last week was killed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,2286],"class_list":["post-479577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-taft-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479577","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=479577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}