Fredrick Damone Emmitt is charged with murder after a woman was shot at a west Houston apartment.

A murder charge is the accusation Houston police announced Wednesday. It is not a finding that the shot was intentional, and a 911 call the records describe is not a plea. FOX 26 Houston reported bond has not been set and that prosecutors want a hearing to hold him without bond. What the surveillance video shows, and what it does not show, is the argument at that hearing.

FOX 26 Houston and ABC13 reported Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, that a 43-year-old man is charged with murder in a Monday shooting at a west Houston apartment. FOX 26 spelled his name Fredrick Emmitt. ABC13 spelled it Frederick Damone Emmitt. Both stations reported he is 43. FOX 26 placed the shooting at a complex on Briar Forest Drive and Enclave Parkway. ABC13 reported officers were called at 2:55 p.m. to 13101 Briar Forest Drive. Those are the spellings and the addresses the two stations used for the same charge.

ABC13 reported officers found the woman in a bedroom with a gunshot wound and that she was pronounced dead at the scene. FOX 26 reported she was pronounced dead after officers found her with a gunshot wound, and that police are not naming her until relatives have been notified. She is not named here. A death at the scene is what the stations reported. It is not a verdict.

FOX 26, citing court records, reported that Emmitt called 911 on himself and reported the shooting as an accident. ABC13 reported police said he called in the shooting and admitted it on the phone, and that court documents say he told law enforcement it was an accident and that he "did not know what happened." FOX 26 reported witnesses saw him leave and that he came back after speaking with authorities. ABC13 reported he returned to the scene and was detained without incident. An admission described in a charging record is the state's account of what he said. It has not been cross-examined.

FOX 26 reported that surveillance footage showed Emmitt leading the woman into the apartment by the shoulders and then into the bedroom where she was later found shot. The station reported the footage did not show the shooting, and that it showed him leaving and entering the complex "multiple times." FOX 26 reported there are no public details on whether the two knew each other, or on a motive. Bond has not been set, the station reported, and prosecutors have requested a hearing to deny bond. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.