Man, woman found dead in downtown Houston apartment in apparent murder‑suicide

A neighbor’s 911 call to Houston police around 9:40 p.m. Thursday night led officers to an apartment at 1617 Fannin Street, where investigators later found two people dead from apparent gunshot wounds. The initial call reported a pool of blood coming from the unit, prompting Houston Police Department officers to secure the scene and run a search of the apartment.

“Officers with the Houston Police Department responded to a neighbor’s call that said there was a pool of blood coming from a nearby apartment located at 1617 Fannin Street around 9:40 p.m.,” police reports state. The building at that address is a downtown high-rise apartment complex in the central business district.

When officers entered the unit, they found a 24-year-old woman dead inside from an apparent gunshot wound, and while searching the rest of the apartment they discovered a man dead in a different area of the same unit from an apparent gunshot wound. “When officers responded, they said they found a 24-year-old woman dead inside the apartment from an apparent gunshot wound. While searching the rest of the apartment, officers then found a man dead from an apparent gunshot wound.”

Investigators are treating the deaths as an apparent murder-suicide. “Investigators say the man shot the woman before shooting himself,” according to the preliminary account provided by detectives at the scene. Houston Police Department detectives continue to process the apartment and interview neighbors who reported the discovery.

Authorities have not released the names or ages of either victim beyond the woman’s age of 24, and no weapon details, autopsy results, or motive have been publicly confirmed. The only published timeline detail available states officers responded around 9:40 p.m. Thursday; the medical examiner’s report and any forensic confirmation of cause and time of death have not been released.

Residents and people who work downtown should expect occasional police activity near 1617 Fannin Street while detectives complete evidence collection. The Houston Police Department has not issued additional public comments; reporters will seek confirmation from HPD public affairs and the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences on the official cause of death, whether a weapon was recovered, and when victim identities will be released after next-of-kin notifications.

An incomplete original report also noted a neighbor discovered a pool of blood outside the unit and that detectives located the man in a different area of the apartment, but that fragment ended mid-sentence and did not add further detail. Authorities ask anyone with information about the incident to contact HPD.