{"id":34791,"date":"2025-08-20T16:49:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=34791"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:49:42","slug":"3-children-lead-police-to-their-parents-dead-bodies-in-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=34791","title":{"rendered":"3 Children Lead Police to Their Parents&#8217; Dead Bodies in Murder-Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article__primary-video-container_1-0\" class=\"comp article__primary-video-container mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-content_1-0\" class=\"comp article-content mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-page_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-page mntl-block structured-content\" data-sc-sticky-offset=\"90\" data-sc-ad-label-height=\"24\" data-sc-ad-track-spacing=\"100\" data-sc-min-track-height=\"250\" data-sc-max-track-height=\"600\" data-sc-breakpoint=\"50em\" data-sc-load-immediate=\"4\" data-sc-content-positions=\"[1, 1250, 1550, 1950, 2350, 2750, 3150, 3550, 3950]\" data-bind-scroll-on-start=\"true\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-universal-callout theme-needtoknow\" data-tracking-id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<div class=\"mntl-sc-block-universal-callout__body\">\n<ul>\n<li>A mother and father have been discovered dead in their Houston home in an apparent murder-suicide, the Houston Police revealed on X<\/li>\n<li>Police found the bodies after being led to them by the couple&#8217;s young children, aged 1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<li>Eyewitnesses said the children had been asking for food and were being tended to by neighbors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">A mother and father were found dead in their home in an apparent murder-suicide, leaving their three young children behind.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/houstonpolice\/status\/1957592068114497611\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">announced on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Three young children, aged 1, 2 and 3, were located uninjured at the scene and are being cared for, according to the police.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">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\u2019 dead bodies in the home, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/26-year-old-man-woman-die-apparent-murder-suicide-apartment-meadowglen-lane-west-houston-police-say\/17587349\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">ABC 13 Eyewitness News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-embed mntl-sc-block-universal-embed mntl-sc-block-embed--youtube\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\u201c[The children] were out in an apartment complex parking lot asking for food,\u201d Houston Police Lt. Larry Crowson said at a press conference, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1xjxxqmfbw4\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">KHOU 11<\/a>. \u201cOfficers responded to the location. They asked where their parents were and [the children] said they were in the apartment deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;The little ones, you could tell they were hungry and thirsty,&#8221; neighbor Deborah McMillan told ABC 13 Eyewitness News. &#8220;The oldest one is who hurts me the most because she was vivid in details of what she had witnessed with her parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">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.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><strong>Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.dotdashmeredith.com\/people-true-crime\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">PEOPLE&#8217;s free True Crime newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">McMillan claimed that the woman had tried to leave her husband before the incident.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_23-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;She came over a few times, asking to use the phone. I would talk to her, try to tell her, &#8216;Hey, it&#8217;s not worth it,&#8217; &#8221; she told ABC 13 Eyewitness News. &#8220;Her main thing is that she didn&#8217;t want to leave because of the kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_25-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-spotlight--mid-circ mntl-sc-block-spotlight--mid-circ mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"midcirc__card-list_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc__card-list mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__title_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__title mntl-text-block\">2 Adults and 2 Kids Found Dead in N.H. Home in Suspected Murder-Suicide<\/div>\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__title_2-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__title mntl-text-block\">5 Dead, Including 3 Children, After Suspected Murder-Suicide Inside Oregon Home<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_27-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The children were sent to their grandmother&#8217;s home following the incident per multiple outlets, and an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_29-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">PEOPLE has reached out to the Houston Police for comment, but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34793,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791\/revisions\/34793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}