Baytown, Texas: Woman Charged With Manslaughter After Neighbor Shot Dead on Cinnamon Lane
Baytown police say Angelica Chavez, 28, shot her neighbor Jaron Collins, 35, during an argument in the street on Wednesday afternoon, then went back inside her home before a SWAT team took her into custody.
Key points
- A Baytown woman is charged with manslaughter after police say she shot her neighbor dead during an argument in the street on Wednesday afternoon and then went back inside her home, setting off a…
- The shooting was reported shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 11, in the 5100 block of Cinnamon Lane, off West Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road and Parsley Avenue.
- Witnesses told officers the suspect had gone into a nearby residence.
A Baytown woman is charged with manslaughter after police say she shot her neighbor dead during an argument in the street on Wednesday afternoon and then went back inside her home, setting off a SWAT response that ended with her in custody.
The shooting was reported shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 11, in the 5100 block of Cinnamon Lane, off West Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road and Parsley Avenue. Officers who arrived found a man unresponsive with a gunshot wound and began rendering aid, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Witnesses told officers the suspect had gone into a nearby residence. Police called out a SWAT team and a hostage negotiation team, and a woman later walked out of the home and was taken into custody. On Wednesday night, officials released no names and said the motive behind the shooting was unknown.
On Thursday, Baytown police identified the woman as Angelica Chavez, 28, and said she has been charged with manslaughter for the death of Jaron Collins, 35. Police say Chavez and Collins were neighbors, and that the two were involved in an argument in the street when Chavez allegedly pulled out a gun and shot the man.
Police say Chavez went back inside her home after the shooting, which prompted the SWAT scene. She was eventually taken into custody at the home. Police said other details about the shooting and the arrest were not available at this time.
A manslaughter charge is an allegation, and Chavez is presumed innocent unless she is proven guilty in court. The shooting happened on a residential street of single family homes in Baytown, the Harris County city east of Houston along the Houston Ship Channel, and it left neighbors watching a SWAT response on their own block on Wednesday evening.
What police have not said is what started the argument. The first reports on Wednesday night carried no names at all. FOX 26 reported that a man was dead and a woman was in custody, that witnesses had pointed officers toward a nearby residence, and that the woman came out of the home after the SWAT team and negotiators arrived. The names and the charge came on Thursday, when police said the suspect was Chavez, the man who died was Collins, and the two were neighbors.
Timeline
- Nov 11, 2026A shooting is reported shortly before 5 p.m. in the 5100 block of Cinnamon Lane in Baytown. Officers find a man unresponsive with a gunshot wound, and he is pronounced dead at the scene.
- Nov 11, 2026A SWAT team and hostage negotiators respond to a nearby home where witnesses said the suspect had gone. A woman walks out of the home and is taken into custody.
- Nov 12, 2026Baytown police identify the woman as Angelica Chavez, 28, charged with manslaughter, and identify the man who died as her neighbor Jaron Collins, 35.