A 37-year-old Houston man has been charged with murder nearly four months after a 30-year-old man was found shot to death in a driveway on Dalview Street. Ronald Carper was arrested Thursday and booked into the Harris County jail in connection with the June 26 killing of Andre Jackson.
Carper is charged with murder in the 248th Criminal District Court, according to an update from City of Houston News. Officers with the Houston Police Department's North Patrol Division Crime Suppression Team made the arrest on Oct. 8, and he was subsequently charged and booked for his role in the shooting, per the same update.
What Happened on Dalview Street
The shooting unfolded about 4:10 p.m. on June 26 at 2815 Dalview Street. HPD patrol officers responding to a shooting call found Jackson suffering from gunshot wounds in the driveway, and Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, the report states.
In the hours after the shooting, investigators said they had no leads on a suspect or a motive. An earlier dispatch from the same newsroom stated plainly that, at that time, “there is no known motive or suspect(s).” That changed as detectives continued working the case, and further investigation eventually developed Carper as a suspect, according to the update.
A Quiet Four-Month Gap Before Charges
Between the June shooting and Thursday's arrest, the case sat without a named suspect for nearly four months before detectives moved in.
Court records on bond, a scheduled court date, or whether Carper has entered a plea were not included in the update, and the case's next steps remain to be seen.
Part of a Broader Dip in Houston Violence
The Dalview Street case comes amid a citywide decline in violent crime that Houston officials have been tracking through 2025 and into 2026. HPD data cited by Houston Public Media showed a 36.4% drop in homicides during the first quarter of 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier, alongside a 34% decrease in robberies and a 9.7% decrease in aggravated assaults.
Citywide, overall violent crime fell 18.9% from 2024 to 2025, with murder reports down 19% over that same span, according to the outlet. Houston recorded 268 murders in all of 2025, compared with 291 roadway fatalities tracked by the Texas Department of Transportation that year — a split that underscores how traffic deaths have outpaced homicides even as the city's murder count has fallen. Theft was the lone nonviolent crime category that climbed, up 5% from 2024 to 2025, Houston Public Media reported.
