Houston Weekend Crimes

[Chronicles of Reasoning Newsletter]

Monday, August 10, 2026

Good morning Houston;

Over the weekend, regardless of the claim of major violent incidents being on the decrease, the criminal pattern, most notably a fatal officer-involved shooting at a Westheimer Road apartment garage and a deadly double shooting in northeast Houston continued.

Top Story

The top story over the weekend is the arrest of 29-year-old Gerardo Gonzalez for beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter, causing serious bodily injury to the child, and this one was suspicious from the beginning. Deputies responded to a gas station on Cypresswood Drive where the mother and Gonzalez brought an unresponsive 2-year-old. The couple lived in a house, and I'm sure both have cell-phones, why did they have to travel to report the incident. Investigators traced the incident to a home where Gonzalez allegedly admitted to striking and stomping on the toddler. On a sad note, the child suffered life-threatening injuries and remains in critical condition. Gonzalez was booked into the Harris County Jail with a bond set at $1 million. Read more

Houston Crime

Two men died late Saturday night in a parking garage in the 8800 block of Westheimer Road. Responding to a 'person down' call, officers found an armed suspect standing over an unresponsive victim. Police shot and killed the suspect after he refused commands to drop his weapon. Both the suspect and the initial victim were pronounced dead at the scene. Read more

A man in his 20s was killed and his mother was injured during a shooting on Saturday evening near Mesa Drive and Ley Road. The gunfire erupted in a lounge parking lot hosting an after funeral gathering, and the suspect fled on foot. Read more

A man was found with multiple gunshot wounds outside a northwest Houston apartment complex early Sunday morning. Read more

Just A Thought

It's hard to say goodbye to yesterday, but yesterdays became memories over the summer for some Houston's youths. While there is no 'official, consolidated public tracking count specifically for teenage homicides in Houston during summer months, individual teen-related shooting deaths are logged separately across local jurisdictions like the Houston Police Department and the Harris County Sheriff's Office without a real-time public summer tally, but with the start of school today, there will be more than a few, empty desks in Houston Independent School District, and a lot of saying goodbye to occupants of those empty desks.

One of those empty desk at Missouri State will belong to Ayden Bazy, a 17-year-old local high school football player, who was arrested and denied bail after being charged in a federal complaint for an attempted armored truck robbery in southwest Houston on August 4, 2026. Read more

He was quick to report Ken Paxton issues with voting, but now a joint investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported on Texas Democratic State Representative and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico's voting registration address history. Read more

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