Houston police are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman and the apparent suicide of a man at 1810 Main Street about 7:45 a.m. on Thursday (April 3).
The identities of the female victim, 21, and the male suspect, 26, are pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.
HPD Homicide Division Sergeant M. Holbrook and Detective R. Lujan reported:
HPD patrol officers responded to a 9-1-1 call from a male (suspect) stating he just killed his girlfriend in an apartment at the above address. HPD SWAT officers responded to the scene and, after making entry to the apartment, found an unresponsive woman with a gunshot wound and an unresponsive man with an apparent-self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Houston Fire Department paramedics responded to the scene and pronounced the man and woman deceased.
The incident is being investigated as a murder-suicide.