Man In Custody After 3 Children Found Dead In Texas City Apartment

Junaid Mehmood, the man police say claimed to have killed his three children and shot his wife, is now in custody.

Police say the man called 911 from Houston to turn himself into Texas City authorities on Thursday night. He was arrested near the Panera Bread on El Dorado Boulevard near the Gulf Freeway. Police say he was taken into custody on a warrant unrelated to the killings and will be held in the Texas City jail.

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Police originally responded to a welfare check around 6:15 p.m. on Thursday at the Pointe Anne Apartments located at 1225 10th Street North in Texas City. There, authorities discovered three children, ages 5, 2 and an infant dead and a woman with a gunshot wound to her head.

"I KILLED MY FAMILY": Junaid Mehmood, 27, was arrested in Houston after police said he confessed to killing three small children, including a baby, and to shooting a woman in the head in a call to 911 dispatchers. https://t.co/i3af55vjJ9

— ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) January 4, 2019

Kimaria Nelson, 24, was taken to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston where she is being treated for her wounds and is currently listed as stable.

NEW: Kimaria Nelson is the name of the mother shot in the head in Texas City, according to her father. Her father says she underwent surgery this am. He tells me the man arrested, Junaid Mehmood, was Kimaria’s boyfriend. Both pictured here. #abc13 https://t.co/rgBsY8IEiX… pic.twitter.com/8jDCJHO6QR

— Courtney Fischer (@CourtneyABC13) January 4, 2019

Nelson’s children were all found dead in the apartment she shared with Mehmood. Angela Pilot, 5; Prince Larry Brown, 2; and 2-month-old Ashanti Mehmood were killed. Mehmood was Junaid’s daughter.

On Facebook, Mehmood apologized to Nelson and her family before turning himself in.