HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 20-year-old man is on the run after being wanted for capital murder. Investigators accuse Dondre Williams of executing two people inside an apartment complex with an infant present. The baby girl will now grow up without her mother. Naryssa Wright and Malakai Williams both suffered gunshot wounds to the head, according to police. Wright’s family told that Malakai was her boyfriend’s nephew. They do not know what triggered the gruesome violence. Wright’s father, Latherio, and younger sister, Natalia, spoke out Friday in an interview with Eyewitness News. They remembered her as a loving sibling, a…
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 4-year-old boy was injured in a shooting Friday afternoon in west Houston, according to police. Officers were called at about 1:50 p.m. to the 600 block of Nottingham Oaks. There they found the child with a gunshot wound to the leg. Police said the boy was rushed to the hospital in stable condition. He is expected to survive. At this time, police said they do not have any suspects. It was unclear if the shooting was accidental or targeted.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — The deadline has passed to submit applications for mail-in ballots for the 2022 Texas primaries, which take place in less than two weeks on March 1. Potential mail-in voters had until the end of the business day Friday to get their application to the office of their county election official. Even those who got their paperwork in at the last minute might still have to vote in person next month. Voters who submitted their application on time but had it returned due to corrections are no longer eligible to vote by mail from this point…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An organization helping kids getting a better night sleep has found that a community is in a bigger need and is looking for help to expand production. A retirement project took on a whole new meaning for Gary Burns. “In the past, when I had a career, I was for charity mainly writing a check,” Burns recalled. “This just felt so much better to be able to do something with your hands.” It’s a hands-on charity that has turned his garage into a workshop. Sitting on top of saw dust are thousands of pieces of wood,…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — After four years of grieving in private, the daughter of a man murdered during a violent home invasion is speaking up. Her father’s accused killer is charged with killing someone else while out of jail on bond, according to authorities. “It’s too much. Something needs to be done. Someone needs to take accountability for what they’re doing,” said Ena Jeter. “We’re very, very angry. It’s already been four years and now this happened.” Silvano Cortez, was shot to death inside his Greenspoint-area home in 2017 in front of his wife and with their two young daughters…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — In between planning their 9-year-old’s funeral, Armando and Gwen Alvarez learned that the man police said shot and killed their little girl was released on bond. In a news conference Friday, the parents said they were both angry and determined to see both men involved in Arlene’s death behind bars. “He’s out. He lives in my area, near my home,” Armando said. “You think I want to be in my house right now?” That anger took the form of anguish when Gwen spoke. “I feel like he needs to be in jail. Both of them,” said…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police are searching for a man they said may be connected to at least two assaults and an attempted assault in the Heights area. “He had this intense, urgent look on his face,” said the victim of the attempted assault. The young mother was walking with her baby daughter in a stroller Wednesday when she said she could feel the suspect approaching from behind. “I heard foot steps behind me,” she said. The mother said she was walking down 12th Street between Harvard and Cortlandt when she turned around and saw the man lunge toward…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported as many as 2,870 fresh Covid-19 cases and 40 deaths in the previous 24 hours, the data shared by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed. It said 40 more patients succumbed to the viral disease, pushing the death toll to 29,917. A total of 51,677 samples were tested, out of which 2,870 turned out to be positive, showing an infection rate of 5.55 per cent. The number of Covid-19 patients in critical care at various hospitals across the country stands at 1,495. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Pakistan has conducted overall 25,948,435 tests to diagnose the coronavirus…
A new study strengthens suspicions that the female hormone estrogen protects against death from COVID-19. Researchers in Sweden studied 14,685 older women with COVID-19, all of whom were past menopause, during which estrogen levels decline dramatically. Seventeen percent were taking estrogen supplements to relieve menopausal symptoms. After adjusting for other risk factors, women getting extra estrogen had a 53% lower risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to untreated women, the researchers reported on Monday in BMJ Open. Observational studies such as this one cannot prove higher estrogen levels are protective. Furthermore, the women were infected before vaccines were available, said Dr.…
