Houston woman Alexis Sharkey was strangled, officials say. The Texas-based social media influencer who was found dead shortly after Thanksgiving along a Houston roadway was strangled to death, authorities announced Tuesday. Alexis Sharkey’s naked corpse was found around 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 28 near Red Haw Lane, officials said, by a city public works employee who reported seeing feet in some bushes along the street, according to reports at the time. On Tuesday – more than seven weeks since the gruesome discovery – a spokesperson for the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences told Fox News the 26-year-old's death has been deemed a homicide. Check out the link to read more about this.