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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A 15-year-old boy is accused of shooting an 18-wheeler driver along Beltway 8 in northeast Harris County on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
18-wheeler driver shot <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Deputies were called to the East Sam Houston Parkway North near Garrett Road about a shooting on the roadway shortly after 5 a.m.<\/p>\n
They found a 36-year-old man, the driver of an 18-wheeler, with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
He was taken to the hospital and taken into surgery. He was last said to be in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n
A 15-year-old is accused of shooting an 18-wheeler driver in northeast Harris County early Wednesday morning. FOX 26’s Leslie DelasBour shared dashcam footage from the 18-wheeler, and what authorities and the driver’s boss are saying about the incident.<\/p>\n Teen accused in shooting <\/p>\n Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says a 15-year-old boy is being charged with aggravated assault.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n According to the sheriff, the teen was in a car with his 23-year-old sister, who was driving.<\/p>\n Authorities say the siblings claimed the truck driver clipped their side mirror with the trailer, and they were trying to get him to stop.<\/p>\n According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the people in the car can be seen on video trying to flag down the truck driver.<\/p>\n The sheriff says the 15-year-old then sat on the passenger side window ledge and fired over the top of the car, striking the truck driver.<\/p>\n The teen and his sister were detained after the shooting.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n No one involved in the incident has been identified.<\/p>\n The Source: The information in this article comes from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A 15-year-old boy is accused of shooting an 18-wheeler driver along Beltway 8 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,405,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-115338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Teen](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jdfq7scq4yojbm8x.jpg\")
Teen accused of shooting truck driver in Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n