Man found dead in truck near his southeast Houston home, police say

Man found dead in truck near his southeast Houston home (KPRC 2)

HOUSTON – An investigation is underway after a man was found dead inside his truck in southeast Houston early Saturday.

Houston police were called to the 10800 block of Nellsfield Lane at about 2:25 p.m. on Nov. 20.

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Once on scene, officers found a man unresponsive in the driver’s seat of his vehicle, which had crashed into a tree. Paramedics pronounced the man dead from multiple lacerations and a gunshot wound, police said.

An officer at the scene said an investigation into the incident is in its early stages and they don’t yet know what occurred.

The Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division is conducting the investigation into the man’s death.

A preliminary investigation indicated that the man left a nearby residence in the 10800 block of Shannon Mills Lane, which is where police believe some sort of “initial incident” occurred.

At this time, there are no known suspects, police said.

Anyone with information in this case is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.


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Briana Zamora-Nipper joined the KPRC 2 digital team in 2019. When she’s not hard at work in the KPRC 2 newsroom, you can find Bri drinking away her hard earned wages at JuiceLand, running around Hermann Park, listening to crime podcasts or ransacking the magazine stand at Barnes & Noble.