Jakayla Alfred, 31, a Black woman, was found dead inside her apartment on Lorraine Street in Houston’s Fifth Ward on the evening of August 4, 2025. Patrol officers were sent to the unit around 6:25 p.m. for a welfare check and discovered her unresponsive; paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. An autopsy later determined she had suffered fatal gunshot wounds. Neighbors told local reporters they hadn’t seen her in days and had noticed a foul odor seeping from the apartment, details that
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