February 25 – The Texas Department of State Health Services reports the first death in the ongoing measles outbreak. The decedent is a child who died in a hospital in Lubbock.[4]
February 27 – Two people are killed when a Robinson R44 helicopter crashes on a private property in Uvalde.[5]
February 28 – The number of measles cases in Texas increases to 146 with 20 people hospitalized, spanning nine counties.[6]
April 2 – 17-year-old Austin Metcalf is stabbed to death at a track meet in Frisco. Another 17-year-old is charged with murder.[8]
May
May 3 – Voters, largely employees of SpaceX, approve a measure to incorporate the space of Cameron County that SpaceX occupies into the city of Starbase.[9]
May 4 – One person is killed and 13 injured in a mass shooting at a family party in southeast Houston.[10]
July 3 – Over a hundred people are killed by flooding in central Texas, with Kerr County hit the hardest. Multiple summer camps, including Camp Mystic, are hit by floods, and the casualties include campers, staff, and camp directors.[19]
July 4 – An Alvarado Police Department officer is shot in the neck while responding to vandalism of and the use of fireworks outside a Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Alvarado.[20]
August 3 – At least 51 Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives leave the state in a bid to prevent the house from voting on a proposed congressional map that was deliberately drawn to yield more Republican representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. At least 100 of the 150 members of the Texas House are required to be in the state for a vote to proceed.[23]
August 4 – The Texas House votes to issue civil arrest warrants for the Democrats who left the state. The civil arrest warrants only apply in Texas and are largely symbolic.[24]
August 11 – Three people are fatally shot in the parking lot of a Target store in Austin. A suspect is arrested in another part of the city.[25]
August 17 – An ICE detention center dubbed the "Lone Star Lockup" opens at Fort Bliss in El Paso. The Trump administration says it is the largest federal detention center in history.[26][27]
August 18 – The Democrats who left Texas return to the state. After returning, those who left are required to sign a form requiring Texas Department of Public Safety escorts. One representative, Nicole Collier, refuses to sign the slip and remains in the House chambers until August 20.[28][29]
September 18 – Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III resigns following pressure over a video of a student confronting a professor for having gender-related content in a course on children's literature. Welsh initially refused to fire the professor, but did so a day later.[32]
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