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The recent driveby at Westbury High School and the stabbing of one Lamar student by another in Ervan Chew park in June aren't just isolated incidents, it seems. It's looking more and more like they're a trend, and a troubling one at that: both the numbers of teenage homicide victims and the numbers of felony-level violent crimes commited by teens are up significantly over last year. Thirty three juveniles have been victims of homicide through...

More on last week's drive-by shooting of a Westbury High School student: Now we know who the two suspects in the crime are, but no one's sure where they are — not even one of the suspects' fathers. The guys wanted in the shooting are Augustin Miguel Marquez (left) and Aldo Aguilar Ramirez, both 17. Police say they were the ones who drove past Julian Ruiz and a group of his friends standing outside the...

Police say they found the car used in the drive-by shooting of a Westbury High School student at a Fort Bend County apartment complex last night, and now they'll begin testing it for clues as to the identity of the people responsible for killing 16-year-old Julian Ruiz.

More on yesterday's drive-by shooting at Westbury High School: It might have been gang-related — but probably not in the way you're thinking. The family of 16-year-old Julian Ruiz, the student killed in the incident, told KHOU that they believe he was shot because he refused to join a gang. Ruiz's folks spoke through the ever-present Quanell X:

A 16 year old Westbury High School student was gunned down in a reportedly gang-related drive by shooting this morning, between 8:35 and 8:40 a.m. in the 5400 block of Dryad, adjacent to the Westbury campus, reports the Chronicle. The student was transported to Ben Taub Hospital, where "he died on arrival,'' said Evelyn Flouri, of the homicide division of the Houston Police Department. Police were not releasing the victim's name. Police told HISD superintendent...

Police have released a description and sketch of the man suspected of shooting at a crowded HISD school bus Tuesday afternoon. Thirty students from Westbury High School and Johnston Middle School were on the bus in southeast Houston when a shot shattered one of the vehicle's windows, injuring two 11-year-old students. Early news reports didn't give much detail about the appearance of the suspect, but now we have the following description:

Someone inexplicably opened fire on an HISD school bus in southeast Houston yesterday, injuring a couple of students and rattling a lot of nerves. The bus, which was carrying about 30 students from Westbury High School and Johnston Middle School, was near Ashville and Sunbeam just before 5 p.m. when a gunshot shattered a side window and narrowly missed several sixth-grade girls.

The trial of Max Soffar, who got a re-trial after 25 years on death row, is on hold until Tuesday because, thanks to the NBA All-Star Game, there aren't enough hotel rooms available to sequester jurors this weekend Power was partially restored to a section of downtown after a fire damaged electric lines this morning, but several county buildings and UH-Downtown remained without electricity this afternoon Leonard Reed Jr. of Houston was sentenced to 30...

HPD Chief Harold Hurtt confirmed yesterday that Houston's homicide rate has spiked this year — compared with 2004, it's up 24 percent so far this year and up 70 percent in the last two months. The majority of killings, Hurtt said, began as violent disturbances, mostly in and around apartment complexes. Over the weekend, Mayor Bill White blamed the increased crime rate on some renegade Katrina evacuees — sorta — but the police shied away from that in Wednesday's press conference.