{"id":773206,"date":"2026-05-04T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773206\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:12:02","slug":"woman-killed-in-cloverleaf-shooting-identified-husband-charged-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773206\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in Cloverleaf shooting identified; husband charged, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>CLOVERLEAF, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/02\/woman-killed-in-apparent-domestic-violence-shooting-in-east-harris-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/02\/woman-killed-in-apparent-domestic-violence-shooting-in-east-harris-county\/\">woman who was shot and killed Saturday afternoon<\/a> in east Harris County has been identified, and her common-law husband has been arrested and charged, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Deputies were called a little after 1 p.m. yesterday to a shooting at a home in the 14200 block of Texarkana Street in the Cloverleaf area, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/HCSO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/HCSO\/\">Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">When they arrived, investigators said they found an adult woman with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In an update posted Sunday, Gonzalez identified the victim as Yanira Nafin, 39, and the suspect as Jose Arquimides Romero, 43, her common-law husband.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Gonzalez said detectives believe the shooting stemmed from a dispute at the home involving Romero\u2019s complaints of back pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities said three children were in the house at the time and were not injured after taking cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities said Romero remained at the residence and was taken into custody. Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office homicide detectives charged him in connection with Nafin\u2019s death, and he was booked into the Harris County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVERLEAF, Texas \u2013 A woman who was shot and killed Saturday afternoon in east Harris County has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":773207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[290321,4219,118532,174789,6386,8323,20882,4345,3677,358,3187],"class_list":["post-773206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-cloverleaf","tag-crime","tag-fatal-shootings","tag-grizzys-hood-news","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-sheriffs-office","tag-hcso","tag-houston","tag-shootings","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116517899286712144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773206","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=773206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}