Crime & Safety
Woman Found Shot To Death In Quiet Spring Neighborhood
Police are investigating a shooting after a young woman was found shot to death in the middle of a neighborhood street in Spring.
SPRING, TX — Residents in the Lexington Woods subdivision are being more watchful after a woman was shot to death in the middle of a neighborhood street.
Homicide investigators were called to a home in the 25000 block of Pepper Ridge Lane around 1:30 a.m. after neighbors reported hearing a gunshot and see a woman’s body in the street.
Investigators said the victim was a 20-year-old black woman, and that she’d been shot once in the head.
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Witnesses said they heard a gunshot and saw the woman laying in the street. Police were initially told the shooting was a suicide, but a weapon was not found.
The woman was staying with friends in the neighborhood. Police are questioning witnesses and looking for possible neighborhood surveillance video.
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