'He jacked me up': Woman kills boyfriend by shoving screwdriver up his nasal cavity, police say

A 22-year-old pistillate successful Texas is accused of sidesplitting her 21-year-old boyfriend, allegedly stabbing him aggregate times successful the caput and look with a screwdriver during a late-night argument.

Jayla Brown is present charged with 1 number of murder successful the December 2025 slaying of Keylan Foreman, tribunal records show.

According to a news release from the Houston Police Department, officers astatine astir 11:55 p.m. connected Dec. 27, 2025, responded to a study of an big antheral being stabbed astatine the intersection of 8800 Lockwood Drive and 4900 Laura Koppe Road.

Upon arriving astatine the location, archetypal responders located Foreman "sitting successful the backseat of a vehicle." He was not conscious and bleeding from aggregate stab wounds to his look and nose.

Medics with the Houston Fire Department transported him to a section infirmary for treatment, but helium succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dormant the pursuing day.

Police identified Brown arsenic the proprietor of the conveyance Foreman was successful erstwhile they arrived and officers spoke with her astatine a determination connected Eastex Freeway.

Brown and respective different witnesses astatine the determination initially told constabulary "there had been an altercation successful a parking batch astatine 8800 Lockwood" aft which they recovered Foreman "lying connected the crushed bleeding," the merchandise states.

However, respective days later, Brown went to the department's Northeast Patrol Station and provided constabulary with a written connection saying "she had been the 1 who stabbed the male, identified arsenic her boyfriend, Mr. Foreman, with a screwdriver aft they had argued," the merchandise said.

Police included further details astir the statement successful a probable origin affidavit. Brown said she and Foreman were some successful the car erstwhile the statement began. She past got retired of the car, walked astir to the driver's broadside door, opened it, and told Foreman to "get out." Brown noted that she opened the doorway for Foreman due to the fact that helium "was connected crutches from a erstwhile injury."

"[Brown] said she and the [Foreman] were some lasting by the close beforehand doorway of her conveyance continuing to argue," the affidavit states. "She stated that the [Foreman] struck her successful the look with his hands and she reacted by hitting him with a screwdriver that she had successful her hand. [Brown] past said that she blacked out. [Brown] stated that the adjacent happening she saw was [Foreman] bleeding badly."

Brown allegedly added, "I deed him aft helium jacked maine up."

Surveillance footage from a adjacent store allegedly showed Brown attacking Foreman. In the clip, constabulary accidental Brown "quickly lunges" astatine Foreman and "swings her limb successful a punching motion" astatine Foreman's head. Brown tin allegedly beryllium seen "continuing to marque carnal contact" with Foreman arsenic helium stumbles and soon falls to the ground. At nary constituent successful the footage does Foreman look to "swing astatine oregon hit" Brown, constabulary said.

An autopsy conducted by Dr. Doyle of the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office determined that Foreman suffered a traumatic encephalon bleed and skull fracture. The mode of decease was a homicide and the origin of decease was "injuries accordant with the connection provided by Brown."

"Dr. Doyle said that, based connected the autopsy, determination was a wide way of wounded wrong [Foreman's] nasal cavity, which was caused by an instrumentality accordant with a screwdriver, arsenic was stated by [Brown]," the affidavit states. "She said that this wounded caused the supra stated [skull] fracture injury."

Brown is being held without enslaved and is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Wednesday.