HPD: Man turned gun on himself after fatally shooting wife

A 37-year-old man shot himself after killing his wife as she worked as an unarmed security guard at a south Houston grocery supply warehouse Saturday afternoon.

Carl Jackson drove an 18-wheeler into the warehouse entrance in the 3100 block of Holcombe around 4:30 p.m. He jumped out of the vehicle and began chasing his wife Helen Jackson, 31, and fired several shots, according to the Houston Police Department.

She died at the scene.

Jackson got back into his pickup truck and fled the scene toward Highway 288. Officers found him at Trammel and Fresno Road and attempted to make contact with him. Investigators said he would not speak to anyone and officers attempted to call a SWAT team.

Before a SWAT team arrived, he turned the gun on himself and died at the scene.

HPD is investigating the case as a murder-suicide, said HPD spokesman Victor Senties.