A woman in her 30s was killed early on Friday, November 13, 2026, in a hit-and-run on Ravendale Road in northeast Harris County, and a witness reported seeing a U-Haul vehicle strike her before it fled the scene, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said, according to ABC13 Houston and KHOU 11.

Source: ABC13 Houston

Deputies received a person-down call about a crash in the 14300 block of Ravendale Road at about 5:15 a.m., ABC13 reported; KHOU put the call at around 5:20 a.m. and described Ravendale Road as a neighbourhood street off Old Humble Road near Interstate 69. Deputies found the woman lying in the road unresponsive, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. She has not been named in the reporting so far.

Homicide detectives take over the case

The sheriff's office sent its homicide detectives to investigate — the step Harris County takes when a road death may involve a crime, not only a collision. Investigators are looking for surveillance video and for witnesses, including people on school buses that reportedly passed through the area that morning, the reports said.

A possible domestic-violence line of inquiry — and what police have NOT said

In an update, the sheriff's office said the woman may have been involved in a domestic-violence situation. HCSO Sergeant Sidney Miller told KHOU that investigators had identified the man she was involved with, that he was not at the scene, and that deputies wanted to talk to him and 'try to figure out what may have occurred here.' ABC13 reported the sheriff's office described the man as her boyfriend and said there is an arrest warrant for him in a different domestic-violence incident unrelated to this victim.

The sheriff's office has NOT said who was driving the U-Haul vehicle, and it has NOT said the boyfriend was involved in the crash. No arrest in the crash itself was reported on Friday. Whether the strike was intentional or accidental has also not been stated — those questions remain open, and this report does not treat the domestic-violence line of inquiry as a finding about how the woman died.

Why a U-Haul sighting matters to the hunt

A witness identifying the fleeing vehicle as a U-Haul gives investigators a concrete lead that an ordinary description might not: rental vehicles generate rental records showing who had the vehicle and when, and the fleet is distinctive and camera-visible. The reports do not say what type of U-Haul vehicle it was, whether it has been found, or where the woman was in the roadway when she was struck.

The road and the neighbourhood

Ravendale Road sits in a residential part of northeast Harris County, off Old Humble Road and close to I-69 — the corridor that carries Houston traffic northeast toward Humble, Cleveland and East Texas and is used daily by commuters and freight drivers alike. A pre-dawn fatality on a neighbourhood street, investigated by homicide detectives, is the kind of case where doorbell and business cameras on a single block can decide whether the driver is ever identified.

What happens next

The next steps are the identification of the woman through the Harris County forensic process, the search for the U-Haul vehicle and its driver, and the interview investigators want with the man they identified. Texas crash reports (CR-3) are sold through TxDOT's CRIS system once filed; requests for scene photos and investigation material in this case go to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the investigating agency. Homicide detectives will decide, with prosecutors, whether any charge follows — on Friday, none had been announced.