- A mother and father have been discovered dead in their Houston home in an apparent murder-suicide, the Houston Police revealed on X
- Police found the bodies after being led to them by the couple’s young children, aged 1, 2 and 3
- Eyewitnesses said the children had been asking for food and were being tended to by neighbors
A mother and father were found dead in their home in an apparent murder-suicide, leaving their three young children behind.
On Monday, Aug. 18, police responded to a shooting incident at a residence on Meadowglen Lane, Houston, where they found a man and woman dead, the Houston Police announced on X.
Three young children, aged 1, 2 and 3, were located uninjured at the scene and are being cared for, according to the police.
Houston Police visited the home at around 4:15 p.m. local time on Monday for a welfare check and found the three children sitting outside being tended to by some neighbors. The three children led the police to their parents’ dead bodies in the home, ABC 13 Eyewitness News reported.
“[The children] were out in an apartment complex parking lot asking for food,” Houston Police Lt. Larry Crowson said at a press conference, per KHOU 11. “Officers responded to the location. They asked where their parents were and [the children] said they were in the apartment deceased.”
“The little ones, you could tell they were hungry and thirsty,” neighbor Deborah McMillan told ABC 13 Eyewitness News. “The oldest one is who hurts me the most because she was vivid in details of what she had witnessed with her parents.”
The deceased man and woman were reportedly both in their 20s. It is believed that the man shot the woman first before turning the gun on himself, around 24 hours before being found, per KHOU 11 and ABC 13 Eyewitness News.
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McMillan claimed that the woman had tried to leave her husband before the incident.
“She came over a few times, asking to use the phone. I would talk to her, try to tell her, ‘Hey, it’s not worth it,’ ” she told ABC 13 Eyewitness News. “Her main thing is that she didn’t want to leave because of the kids.”
The children were sent to their grandmother’s home following the incident per multiple outlets, and an investigation is ongoing.
PEOPLE has reached out to the Houston Police for comment, but did not immediately hear back.
