Police: Houston Tenant Kills 3 Others, Set Fire to Lure Them

Police: Houston Tenant Kills 3 Others, Set Fire to Lure Them
Neighbors stand around a multi-room renting facility in the aftermath of a fatal shooting in Houston on Aug. 28, 2022. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP
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HOUSTON—A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants—killing three of them—Sunday morning after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said. Officers fatally shot the gunman.

The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston. Police and fire crews responded to the apartment house after reports of the fire, police Chief Troy Finner said.