UPDATE: During a press conference held at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Chief Deputy Tim Cannon
stated that the deceased victims were counted as six children and two adults. The victims ranged in age
from six to fifty. Two of the victims were female and six were male. The deceased family members were
identified as: Valerie Jackson, 40; her husband Duane Jackson, 50; and their six children – Nathaniel,
Honesty, Duane, Jr., Caleb, Trinity and Jonna. (Spelling of names were not given at this time.) Initial
reports stated there were five children and three adults killed.
During the press conference, it was revealed that there were three calls for a welfare check,
possibly including one call reporting a man with a gun. Cannon responded that the deputies did
not have enough information to make entry into the home until the discovery of the first child’s
body. Cannon called the killings a senseless tragedy.
Six children — aged 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 13 — and two adults were found dead of gunshot
wounds inside three bedrooms. Two of the kids and one of the adults who died were female. Metal
handcuffs were allegedly used to restrain some of the deceased, authorities said. Some of the
dead had been shot multiple times.
Conley reportedly had a prior relationship with Valerie Jackson, 40, one of the deceased, according
to Sgt. Craig Clopton. Clopton said at least one of the children found dead in the house was likely
fathered by Conley.