John Ieans, 65, was charged with murder in the death of his 27-year-old son Andrew Ieans
A Texas father has been charged with killing his adult son during an argument at their Houston home after police found the 27-year-old victim on the family's front lawn just after midnight on Monday night.
John Ieans, 65, is already out of bail after he was arrested for the murder of his son Andrew Ieans in Houston, where police responded to 10 shootings and six murders in an eight-hour period starting Monday night.
Officer responded to a report of a shooting at 6222 Rollingbook Drive at 12.30am Tuesday and found Andrew lying on the front lawn with multiple gunshot wounds. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
A witness said the pair was arguing before the father shot the son. Police haven not established a motive for the shooting and have not determined if it was in self-defense.
John Iaens was arrested at the scene. He posted $75,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned in March, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Houston, the most populated city in Texas, saw homicides go up 71 percent last year compared to 2019, KHOU reports.
The Houston Police Department did not respond to requests for comment from DailyMail.com about Tuesday morning's shooting.
Police responded to the home at 6222 Rollingbook Drive at 12.30am Tuesday and found Andrew Ians, 27, lying on the grass with multiple gunshot wounds
'We're still trying to gather as much information to see what exactly occurred, if it was self-defense,' Lieutenant Emanuel Pavel told reporters.
On Monday at around 6pm, Harris County deputies shot and killed the man believed to have killed a Cracker Barrel manager who was shot as she tried to help her coworker escape a robbery.
Deputies say they spotted Nathan Humphrey, 26, walking
