(Texas City, TX) -- A 27-year-old man is under arrest for killing three children and shooting a woman in Texas City on Thursday.
Police picked up 27-year-old Juniad Mehmood in Webster, a few hours after officers arrived at an apartment to find three dead children and a woman who had been shot in the head. Police say the children are ages five, two, and a baby.
After a few hours after making the shocking discovery, Mehmood was taken into custody late Thursday night by a restaurant in southeast Houston on El Dorado In Texas City.
Mehmood was reportedly distraught, incoherent, emotional, yelling too, as he sat in back of a patrol car awaiting transfer into Texas City police custody.
The woman is in stable condition at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Mehmood reportedly confessed to the crimes in a 911 call shortly before he was arrested.
Mehmood's motive or cause of death of the children is still under investigation.
Police also Tweeted about the scene: