January 3 – A man shoots three children to death and wounds a woman in Texas City.[1]
January 23 – Blue Origin successfully launches its New Shepard 3 rocket and completes the tenth sub-orbital test flight, reaching an altitude of 106.9 km (351,000 ft), carrying its crew capsule and making a controlled upright landing in West Texas.[2]
January 28 – Pecan Park raid: Texas Police shoot and kill two homeowners after invading their house. 5 officers were injured in a substantial shootout in Harris County near Houston. Reports later indicated one of the officers lied that drugs were in the house.[3]
April 24 – John William King is executed by lethal injection by the state of Texas, 21 years after the murder of James Byrd Jr., for which he was sentenced.[5]
April 25 –
Tornadoes spawned by severe weather in Texas and Louisiana cause at least five deaths and over 17,000 power outages.[6]
A Texas semi truck driver with no criminal record is arrested and faces 4 counts of vehicular homicide after he told police his brakes were failing on I-70 as it descended from the mountains in Colorado and caused a 28 vehicle crash.[7]
June 9 – At least one person is killed and six others are injured after a crane collapses onto an apartment building in Dallas amid severe weather.[8]
July 13 – U.S. Vice PresidentMike Pence says the conditions under which asylum seekers are being held in facilities along the U.S. border with Mexico are unacceptable, after visiting two federal detention centers in Texas, remaining the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to say so. He calls upon the U.S. Congress to act.[10]
July 30 – Federal agents join the investigation of a fire that destroys a 125-year-old landmark Catholic Church of the Visitation in Westphalia. After storms destroyed two earlier church structures in the 1880s, the Church of Visitation was completed in February 1895 and dedicated on May 23, 1895.[11]
July 31 – An explosion at an ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baytown hospitalizes 66 people.[12]
August 31 – Midland–Odessa shootings: At least seven people are killed and 21 others wounded in a mass shooting in West Texas, between the cities of Midland and Odessa. The shooter is shot and killed in Odessa.[16]
September 1 – New laws come into effect in the state of Texas that allow for less restrictions on the carrying of guns in "schools, places of worship, foster homes where children live and apartments".[17]
September 3 – Walmart announces it will stop selling ammunition for handguns and some assault weapons in all of its American stores in response to a shooting that killed 22 and injured 24 at one of its El Paso, stores the month prior. It and Kroger also ask customers not to bring guns into the stores.[18]
October 14 – Aaron Dean, the Fort Worth police officer who shot a woman to death in her bedroom during what was intended to be a welfare check, resigns his position, and later that day is arrested and formally charged with murder in the case.[23]
October 20 – Tornadoes strike North Texas as part of an outbreak.[24]
October 27 – Two men die and ten others are injured in a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greenville.[25]
November 1 – Former Texas representative Beto O'Rourke drops out of the presidential primaries.[26]
November 27 – A chemical plant producing butadiene in Port Neches explodes and burns. It damages thousands of buildings over several square miles and sending three workers to the hospital.[27]
December 1 – Three people are killed in a plane crash in San Antonio.[28]
