The latest on the deaths of eight people six children and two adults — found dead inside a Houston home (all times local):
An official with Texas Child Protective Services said the agency had prior contact with people at a Houston home where two adults and six children were shot to death.
Spokeswoman Estella Olguin said Sunday that a preliminary review found the previous involvement. She said an internal review was under way by their Office of Child Safety to evaluate “any prior contacts with the family to ensure they were handled appropriately.” She had no further details Sunday afternoon.
David Conley has been charged with three counts of capital murder after the discovery of the bodies.
Authorities discovered the bodies after they were called to the home for a welfare check Saturday. Conley was taken into custody after surrendering to authorities.
Authorities identified the eight people fatally shot at a Houston home as two adults and six children ranging in age from six to 50 years.
At a Sunday afternoon news conference, prosecutors and police said that a 40-year-old female victim had a prior relationship with David Conley, who is charged with capital murder in the family’s death.
The children, two girls and four boys, were ages 13, 11, 10, 9, 7 and 6. At least one of those was believed to be Conley’s child, they said.
All eight victims two adults and six children found in a Houston-area home were shot in the head, according to an arrest affidavit for a man charged with capital murder.
The arrest affidavit was read in court Sunday afternoon at a probable cause hearing for 48-year-old David Conley. He didn’t appear in court. The judge denied him bond.
According to the arrest affidavit, Conley said he had discovered on Saturday morning that the locks had been changed at the house after he’d moved out. He then entered the home through an unlocked window and restrained, shot and killed the eight people.
Police later responded to a welfare check at the house and got no response at the door but saw through a window a male on the floor with a gunshot wound. Police then heard gunshots coming from the front of the house. A standoff ensued between officials and Conley and he later gave himself up to authorities and was arrested.
The man charged following the discovery of two adults and six children slain in a Houston-area home has a long criminal history that includes violence.
David Conley, 48, was charged with three counts of capital murder after the discovery of the bodies. One capital murder count covers multiple deaths. Another is for a person under 6 years of age, according to court records. He was being held Sunday in Harris County Jail. Bond has not yet been set.
Court records show Conley’s criminal history dates back until at least 1988, with the most recent incident last month, when was charged with assault of a family member.
In court documents, authorities say the suspect had been arrested for allegedly assaulting the woman he was living with at the home where the bodies were found.
Court documents say that in the incident last month Conley pushed the woman’s head against a refrigerator multiple times after she tried to stop him from disciplining her son with a belt. The case was still pending.
In 2013, he was charged with aggravated assault for threatening the same woman with a knife. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine months in the county jail.
In 2000, he was arrested for retaliation, accused of putting a knife to his then-girlfriend, threatening to kill her, her baby and himself. That came after she filed an assault charge for cutting her with a knife and punching her in the face. He was sentenced to five years in prison for retaliation.
