Kendrick Rayvon Fisher, 29, has been charged with capital murder over the deaths of a 28-year-old woman and 2-year-old child, the Houston Police Department said in a release

Police said they found a man asleep on a couch just feet away from where he stabbed his sister and 2-year-old niece to death.

Houston police say when they walked into the apartment Kendrick Fisher, 29, was asleep on the couch and his sister, 28, and niece, 2, were dead.