--- description: A woman wearing hand restraints and ringing doorbells in a Texas neighborhood has been identified as a victim of domestic violence title: Texas Woman Seen Ringing Doorbells in Video Was Domestic Violence Victim, Police Say image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42b58bdfe4b53471/698939130a4a220f079d38fd/texas-woman-doorbell.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Crime](/tag/crime/) ## Crime Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Texas Woman Seen Ringing Doorbells in Video Was Domestic Violence Victim, Police Say by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 30, 2018 3:07 PM CUT  Montgomery County Sheriff's Office by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 30, 2018 3:07 PM CUT A woman seen in a viral video wearing hand restraints and ringing doorbells in a Texas neighborhood has been identified by authorities as a victim of domestic violence. The boyfriend of the 32-year-old was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in the same neighborhood near Lake Conroe, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Scott Spencer said at a [news conference](https://www.facebook.com/MCTXSheriff/videos/1677351169053844/ "undefined") on Wednesday. The woman was not at the home when officers arrived after a request for them to check on the welfare of a man who was making suicidal comments, Spencer said. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office did not reveal either person’s name. The man was identified as a 49-year-old white male. The latest details on the woman come after she was seen in a viral [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhyvY4JcoO0 "undefined") released Sunday ringing a doorbell while wearing what appears to be hand restraints and no pants. Authorities confirmed that the girlfriend of the deceased man is the woman in the video. They did not confirm why she was ringing the doorbells. Spencer said the woman is now safe and with her family. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5382678/texas-woman-doorbell-boyfriend-dead/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5382678/texas-woman-doorbell-boyfriend-dead/"},"headline":"Texas Woman Seen Ringing Doorbells in Video Was Domestic Violence Victim, Police Say","datePublished":"2018-08-30T15:07:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T21:17:59.483Z","description":"A man identified as her boyfriend died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound","url":"https://time.com/5382678/texas-woman-doorbell-boyfriend-dead/","keywords":["Crime","Texas","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42b58bdfe4b53471/698939130a4a220f079d38fd/texas-woman-doorbell.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42b58bdfe4b53471/698939130a4a220f079d38fd/texas-woman-doorbell.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"texas-woman-doorbell","caption":"","creditText":"Montgomery County Sheriff's Office","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/crime/","name":"Crime"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5382678/texas-woman-doorbell-boyfriend-dead/","name":"Texas Woman Seen Ringing Doorbells in Video Was Domestic Violence Victim, Police Say"}}]}] ```