A 47-year-old Texas man has been arrested and charged with capital murder after a five-year-old girl was killed in a shooting targeting her family’s vehicle in northwest Harris County. Authorities said Jeremy Porter was identified using evidence including automated licence plate-reader information and arrested less than 24 hours later.

Zah’Layah Walter was travelling with her mother and four siblings when bullets struck the vehicle on Grant Road near Jones Road on Saturday night. Her mother said she did not realise Zah’Layah had been hit until reaching their apartment; the investigation remains ongoing.