A woman of about 40 was shot dead and her infant grandchild was critically wounded inside an apartment in northwest Houston on Saturday night, October 31, after the baby's father opened fire during an argument and then died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside the home, Houston police said. The shooting happened at about 7:35 p.m. in the 7700 block of Willow Chase Boulevard, in the North Belt area of northwest Houston, according to the Houston Police Department account reported by Ballot News and Houston television stations.
Source: Ballot News, Nov 1, 2026 (Houston Police Department account)
Police said the man had come to the apartment to bring diapers for the infant he shares with the child's 19-year-old mother. An argument broke out between the man and the young mother, and during the confrontation he allegedly shot the mother's mother — the baby's grandmother, aged about 40 — and then shot his own infant child. Local television reports of the police account said the grandmother was shot in the back and the baby in the abdomen. The 19-year-old mother was not struck by gunfire.
The mother carried her wounded baby out of the apartment
As officers and emergency crews converged on the apartment, the 19-year-old mother carried her wounded baby outside the home, according to police. Inside, officers found the father with what police described as an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Houston police Lt. Michael Pulido said the first officers performed CPR and applied a chest seal on the grandmother before Houston Fire Department paramedics arrived — the kind of immediate aid officers give a chest wound while an ambulance is still on its way.
Source: Houston television breaking-news reports, Nov 1, 2026 (Houston Police Department briefing)
The grandmother and the infant were both taken to hospital. The grandmother was pronounced dead there. The baby remained in critical condition on Sunday morning; one report described the child as critical but stable. Police have not released the infant's exact age, and no one involved had been publicly identified by Sunday morning.
The wounded child is an infant. Awaaz Punjab does not name or picture child victims: this report gives only what police have released — that the baby is in critical condition in hospital — and the illustration above shows a quiet apartment street, not the scene.
Homicide detectives and a crime-scene unit took over the apartment
The case is being investigated by the Houston Police Department's Homicide Division, and Crime Scene Unit personnel processed the apartment. Investigators have described the shooting as a domestic incident, and police said multiple witnesses were present and were being interviewed to establish the full sequence of the argument and the shooting. Beyond the argument with the child's mother, police have not publicly identified a motive.
What police have not said
Police have not released the names of the woman who died, of the man, or of the child; they have not said what kind of firearm was used, whether the man lived at the apartment or was visiting only to deliver the diapers, or whether there had been earlier calls to the address. Those points are open questions in the public record, stated plainly here because the department has not answered them: what is established is a diaper delivery that turned into an argument, two people shot inside the home, a mother who carried her baby out, and a shooter found dead inside.
Where this happened
Willow Chase Boulevard is a residential street of apartment communities in northwest Houston, in the North Belt area near Beltway 8 — a part of the city where many working families, including a large share of Houston's immigrant and Punjabi communities across the northwest suburbs, live in the apartment corridors along the beltway. A shooting inside one family's home on a Saturday evening, with neighbours and witnesses nearby, is felt across the whole complex, and residents woke on Sunday to a homicide investigation in their own parking lots and stairwells.
If someone at home is afraid
Police accounts in cases like this one almost always begin the same way — an argument inside a home, and a gun within reach. Anyone in the United States who is afraid of a partner or family member can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788, at any hour; in an emergency, call 911. In Harris County, the Houston Area Women's Center also runs a 24-hour hotline at 713-528-2121.
What happens next
With the suspected shooter dead, there will be no arrest and no criminal trial in this case; the Homicide Division's work now is to complete the record — witness statements, the crime-scene findings, and the formal identification of the dead through the county's forensic process, after which names are normally released once families are notified. The next public update that matters is the infant's condition. Awaaz Punjab will update this story when police release the names or the hospital picture changes.