{"id":91966,"date":"2025-07-25T17:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91966\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:46:23","slug":"houston-shooting-murder-suspect-accused-of-killing-woman-collecting-cans-on-griggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91966\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston shooting: Murder suspect accused of killing woman collecting cans on Griggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/amber-mcnulty-mugshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Amber McNulty (Photo: Houston Police Department) <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; A Houston woman has been charged with murder after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/houston-griggs-road-shooting-july-2025-woman-collecting-cans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegedly killing another woman who was collecting cans<\/a> at an apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>   Amber McNulty charged <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">According to Houston police, Amber McNulty, 43, was charged with murder in the death of Linda Edwards, 75, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">She had previously been charged with felon in possession of a weapon on July 15, the day of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">She remains in jail.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/A9DE4E90A93689F24E6C4F6CBBFCFC1D-0-1753450843196.jpg\" alt=\"Houston news today: 5-year-old girl drowns; missing woman found dead\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>   Woman shot to death on Griggs Road <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/snapshot-2025-07-15t152627.011.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The shooting occurred at an apartment complex in the 4000 block of Griggs Road around 11:15 a.m. July 15.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">According to police, Edwards was known for collecting cans and was reportedly picking up cans that a resident left on an apartment porch.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">McNulty, who lived at the apartment, allegedly saw the woman, put on a ballistic vest, and shot at Edwards through a window. Edwards was shot multiple times and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">According to police, McNulty said &#8220;she felt she was in danger and was trying to protect herself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">McNulty was detained and later charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article comes from the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Amber McNulty (Photo: Houston Police Department) HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston woman has been charged with murder after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":91967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6082,6386,4345,50,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-91966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114915127306118348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91966","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=91966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}