Lazette King, 46, a Black woman, was found shot to death on June 17, 2025, inside an apartment in southeast Houston near McHenry Street and Fairway Drive. Houston police later confirmed her identity and opened the case as a homicide. An obituary and funeral notices published later that month recorded her death in Houston that week.

Police said the suspect was identified as 48-year-old Michael Ellis, described as King’s longtime boyfriend. Investigators reported that after the shooting the suspect sent a graphic photograph of her body to a relative and threatened to harm her family. Authorities also linked an earlier nonfatal shooting that same evening in the area to the incidents.

Officers located and arrested Michael Ellis near the Willowbrook area the following day and took him into custody. Anyone with information about King, her movements on June 17, or the incidents that evening is asked to come forward.