Man Found Dead Pinned Under a Parked Vehicle on Greens Bayou Street; Homicide Detectives Are Investigating
Officers answering a call on Greens Bayou Street about 11:15 p.m. Monday found the man under a vehicle parked on the street, and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Police have not said how it happened - or who he was.
Houston homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man who was found pinned under a parked vehicle on Greens Bayou Street on Monday night, according to the Houston Police Department. Patrol officers responded to a call for service at 12617 Greens Bayou Street at about 11:15 p.m. on November 9 and found the man pinned under a vehicle parked on the street, the department said in an account reported by the Texas Herald News. Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Beyond that short official account, the department is saying remarkably little - and what it is not saying defines the case. Police have not said what caused the vehicle to pin the man. They have not said whether they suspect foul play. And they have not released his name or his age: the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences has not yet verified his identity, and until it does, he remains unidentified in the public record.
The case, listed under incident number 711919426, is being worked by Homicide Division Sergeant K. Meek and Detective A. Hernandez, who reported that the circumstances leading up to the man's death remain under investigation. The presence of homicide detectives, as this desk notes on every such file, means the death is being investigated with their tools; it is not a public finding about how the man died. That determination - like his identity - belongs to the forensic institute and the department, and neither has issued it.
Police are asking anyone with information about the case to call the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600. The desk will update this file when officials release an identity or a cause, and will not publish a name before they do.
