Lazette King, 46, a Black/African American woman, was found shot to death on June 17, 2025, inside an apartment in southeast Houston, Texas. Houston police responded to the complex off McHenry Street/Fairway Drive late that night and later confirmed that the victim was Lazette King, 46, female, whose death was being investigated as a homicide. An obituary and funeral notices published in late June and July 2025 corroborated that Lazette King, age 46, died in Houston that week.
Investigators identified Michael Ellis, 48, as the suspect and said he was the longtime boyfriend of Lazette King, 46, female. According to police, after the shooting he sent a graphic photograph of her body to a relative and threatened to harm her family. A man had also been shot earlier that evening in the same area; authorities said the incidents were connected and that the suspect was wanted in the nonfatal shooting as well.
Following a brief manhunt, officers located and arrested Michael Ellis near the Willowbrook area in northwest Houston on June 18, 2025. He was taken into custody without incident and questioned by detectives. News accounts based on Houston Police Department statements reported that Ellis was charged with murder; KHOU further reported he was also charged with unlawful disclosure of intimate visual material related to the image he allegedly sent after killing Lazette King, 46, female.
Public databases and memorial pages list Lazette King, 46, female, as having been killed by gunfire on June 17, 2025, in Houston, Texas. These sources align on the basic timeline and identify Michael Ellis as the arrested suspect in the death of Lazette King, 46, female, with the case opened as a murder investigation by Houston police.
