Overview
- Firefighters were dispatched around 10 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday after Union Pacific employees reported a brush fire under the freeway.
- Crews extinguished the blaze and discovered a deceased man hanging from a rope with burns beneath the I-610 overpass near Kirkpatrick in the 7800 block of North Loop East.
- Houston police say the death is under investigation as a homicide as forensic work proceeds.
- Investigators describe the location as a known homeless encampment and report no witnesses so far.
- Authorities urge anyone with information to contact HPD’s Homicide Division or Houston Crime Stoppers.