Mother's Boyfriend, Daughter Find Her Fatally Shot Near Ex-boyfriend's Body

A man walked into a Texas apartment to find his girlfriend dead alongside her ex-boyfriend in what appeared to be a murder-suicide case.

Deputies found the woman and her ex-boyfriend with gunshot wounds and pronounced them both dead at the scene.

The incident took place just before 8 p.m. Tuesday at an apartment complex on Assay Street, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said.

The two bodies were found after the woman's daughter had not heard from her mother all day, Click2Houston reported. When the daughter tried to reach her but got no response, she got in touch with her mother's current boyfriend.

The daughter and the woman's boyfriend eventually showed up at the apartment and knocked on her door. When nobody answered, the man forced entry into the apartment and found his girlfriend deceased, and her ex-boyfriend's body.

Deputies responded to reports of a shooting and discovered the bodies inside one of the units of the apartment complex. Both the woman and her ex-boyfriend had gunshot wounds, KHOU 11 reported.

"Upon arriving an adult male and an adult female were confirmed deceased. Homicide and CSU investigators are on scene investigating," the Harris County Sheriff's Office wrote on Twitter.

Homicide Sgt. Miller also provided an update and said an investigation into the deaths was underway. Officials are not actively looking for additional suspects as the signs suggest that the deaths were a case of murder-suicide, Miller added.

Officials also noted that the two deceased had a history of domestic violence.

A similar incident was reported in 2021 after a woman killed her ex-boyfriend and then pulled the trigger on herself in Sorrento, Florida. Keven McCarthy, 50, was found shot dead in a chair at an RV resort, where he had been staying for a month since his breakup with Michelle Nathan, 56. The ex-girlfriend's body was found about 50 feet away from McCarthy with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and a .357 magnum revolver beside her.

If you have thoughts of suicide, confidential help is available for free at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Call 1-800-273-8255. The line is available 24 hours a day.