Jose Torres, 37, was shot and killed at his home on Mallard Stream Court in the Willow Springs subdivision of Houston on November 15, 2024. Torres, a dispatcher for the Spring Branch Independent School District Police Department, was reportedly doing yard work that morning and was expected to pick up his wife and children later that day. When he did not arrive, family members found him inside the home with multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators say Torres was confronted and shot while working in the yard. Evidence at the scene suggested items were missing from the house, raising the possibility of a robbery. Two days later, on November 17, authorities arrested Torres’s 22-year-old nephew, Antonio Guzman, at a Fairbanks North Houston Road residence; Guzman was charged with murder and held on $200,000 bond. Court documents allege Guzman had been raised by Torres and his wife for six years and that he confessed, expressing feelings of being unloved after the family moved.

Torres is survived by his wife and two daughters. Does anyone in the area have information about the Willow Springs neighborhood or saw anything on Mallard Stream Court that day?