{"id":349741,"date":"2025-11-02T06:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349741\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T06:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:23:11","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-for-20-year-old-found-dead-at-northwest-harris-county-apartment-complex-hcso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349741\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder for 20-year-old found dead at northwest Harris County apartment complex, HCSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas  (KTRK) &#8212; In September 2025, crime scene tape wrapped around the Standard at Champions apartment complex off of FM 1960. Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office investigators were <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/mother-finds-20-year-old-son-shot-death-northwest-harris-county-apartment-complex-off-fm-1960-sheriffs-office-says\/17847325\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trying to piece together how the body of 20-year-old Troy Styles ended up there fatally shot.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nearly two months later, officials announced the arrest of 22-year-old Desean Roberts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Roberts was already in jail on an unrelated forgery charge, in which he&#8217;s accused of having multiple $100 bills, when authorities charged him with killing Styles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sheriff&#8217;s office said Styles&#8217; mother was the one who found his body after tracking his cellphone to the apartment complex. They said she called 911, and Styles was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At the time, the sheriff&#8217;s office told ABC13 they weren&#8217;t sure if Styles was shot at the complex or if his body was dumped there after being shot at another location, because there weren&#8217;t shell casings at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Even with this murder charge now filed, law enforcement said the investigation continues. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff&#8217;s office homicide unit.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; In September 2025, crime scene tape wrapped around the Standard at Champions apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[171337,4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-349741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-171337","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115478672438463917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}