Second arrest made in north Harris County apartment shooting death

A second person has been arrested in the shooting death of a woman at the August North apartments on Kuykendahl Road, deepening investigators’ view of how the violence unfolded in north Harris County. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the arrest Thursday in a case that began with an April 19 shooting at the apartment complex near West Rankin Road.

The shooting was called in around 5:15 a.m. that morning, and deputies found two women with gunshot wounds. One woman died and the other was injured; FOX 26 reported the surviving victim was in fair condition at a local hospital. Investigators believed both women had been shot somewhere else and came to the complex looking for help, a detail that suggests the apartment grounds were not where the shooting started even though that is where it ended for responding deputies.

FOX 26 identified the second arrestee as 22-year-old Alyzae Davila, who was charged with murder in connection with the April shooting. ABC13 also reported that a 26-year-old man had been arrested in the case, tying the killing to a fight that escalated near the north Harris County apartment complex. Together, the arrests point to a dispute that appears to have turned deadly before the women reached August North.

What remains unclear is the full sequence of events that led from the fight to the shooting and then to the apartment complex on Kuykendahl Road. The public record in the case shows one woman killed, another wounded, and now two arrests, but the exact role each suspect is alleged to have played has not been laid out in detail.

For neighbors and tenants around August North, the case is less a random act inside the complex than a violent episode that spilled onto the property after it had already begun elsewhere. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez has been one of the main public voices on the case as investigators continue to piece together where the women were shot and how the April killing came together.