KILLEEN, Texas — The Killeen Police Department was investigating its third homicide in four days after a person was killed Sunday in West Killeen.
Police said Stepheno Rashad Gibson was shot in the 5000 block of Primavera Lane. They were unable to save him and he died at the scene, according to the Killeen Police Department. Police did not identify a suspect.
Police were also investigating the stabbing death of a person at the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen in the 5600 block of South Highway 195 on Saturday.
Police said Muhammad Idrees Kahn, 69, was stabbed to death by a business associate. The suspect, 49-year-old Raymond Cecil Kastner, was charged with murder, per Killeen PD.
The two murder investigations came after the shooting death of Abkhir Abdel Neville, 21, on Nov. 10.
He was found in the 200 block of East Bryce Ave. around 9:45 p.m. He later died at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center. As of the time this story was written, police were still looking for a suspect.
Ofelia Miramontez with the Killeen Police Department said investigators are working 17 murder cases with 19 victims. Two of the cases involved two victims. They've made eight arrests, Miramontez said.