HOUSTON – Police said Wednesday they are investigating a stabbing that left a woman dead and a man injured in east Houston.
The shooting was reported about 8:10 a.m. at 4011 Galveston Road.
Houston police at the scene said that the man's sister had returned home from taking some children to school when she heard a child crying in her brother's apartment. She walked over and found the woman's body and found her brother had been cut.
The deceased victim was identified as 32-year-old Josselin Yamileth. Xavier Alejandro Martinez, 25, has been charged with murder and remains hospitalized at Ben Taub Hospital.Â
Police described the stabbing as an apparent attempted murder-suicide.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story reported that police were investigating a shooting. The above story has been corrected.