Overview
- Kip Stitts, 57, is charged with murder in Harris County in the Nov. 5, 2025 shooting of Sherry Dawson at a northeast Houston storage facility and is not in custody.
- Court filings describe an alleged retaliation motive tied to a failed $125,000 cocaine purchase in which Dawson’s common-law husband said he acted as a middleman and received a $10,000 cut.
- Storage-facility surveillance shows a pickup following Dawson inside and a struggle before the suspect drives off, according to investigators.
- Police say phone data placed Stitts near the storage site, showed him traveling out of Houston hours after the killing, and pinging in Detroit the following day.
- Prosecutors requested a $1 million bond and cited Stitts’ prior convictions for drug and violent offenses, and investigators note a Ford F-250 linked to him was recently bought in Beaumont.