Crime & Safety
Motorist Finds Man's Body In Northwest Houston Ditch: Police
HPD homicide is looking into the shooting death of a man after his body was found in a ditch long W.12th Street on Thursday , police said.
HOUSTON — HPD homicide investigators are looking into the death of a man found shot to death along a remote stretch of road near Loop 610 Thursday morning.
EMS was dispatched to W. 12th Street near Hempstead Road at about 7 a.m. when a motorist reported seeing a body in a ditch. EMS technicians determined the man had died from at least one gunshot wound and called police.
According to a KPRC report, the man was also bound and gagged.
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The name of the victim has not been released. The shooting is under investigation.
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