Harris County detectives probe apparent murder-suicide in Tomball home
A 12-year-old’s 911 call led deputies to a Tomball home where a woman and a man were found dead in separate rooms.
A 12-year-old girl called 911 late Thursday after finding her mother unresponsive inside a home in the 12500 block of Baldwin Springs Court in northwest Harris County, and deputies later found a woman and a man dead in separate rooms.
Detectives identified the woman as the child’s mother and the man as her stepfather. The man had an apparent gunshot wound and the woman had stab wounds. Harris County officials found no signs of forced entry.
The girl and neighbors told detectives there had been past family-violence incidents at the home. The child was physically unharmed and was later released to a family friend after relatives were in Venezuela and could not immediately pick her up.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office, the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office, the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office and Child Protective Services all responded to the scene. There was no known threat to the public as the investigation continued.
Rosiris Gonzalez and Spencer Taylor were identified as the dead, and Taylor had been charged in 2023 with interfering with the duties of a public servant at the same address.
The Texas Council on Family Violence counted 161 Texans who died from intimate-partner violence in 2024, including 104 children who lost a parent, and a Houston report found domestic-violence homicides in Harris County rose 34% between 2023 and 2024.
Anyone facing domestic violence concerns or a mental-health crisis can call 911 in an emergency or 988 for immediate crisis support.
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