Officers find suspect dead while serving warrant in connection with woman's shooting death

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A murder suspect accused of shooting a mother seven times was found dead after a standoff Monday afternoon in northeast Houston.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez identified the suspect as 54-year-old Gregory Brown.

Brown was accused of gunning down Debra Carrington as she turned onto her street in north Harris County on April 12.

On Monday afternoon, Brown barricaded himself inside a home in the 5600 block of Colfax Street when deputies with the Harris County Sheriff's Office Violent Criminal Apprehension Team (VCAT) attempted to execute a warrant for his arrest.

The Houston Police Department's SWAT team responded to assist. When officers finally entered more than three hours later, they found Brown dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Gonzalez.

Gonzalez said Brown was Carrington's "estranged ex-boyfriend."

She was found shot to death in an SUV that had crashed into a tree near Caruso Forest Drive. Online medical examiner records confirmed Carrington was shot seven times.

Surveillance footage captured the vehicle losing control before colliding with a tree. A nearby resident told ABC13 they saw a man on foot moments before the shooting.

The sheriff said that Brown acted alone in Carrington's murder, and no other suspects are being investigated by HCSO homicide.

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