{"id":115375,"date":"2026-01-08T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115375\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:52:20","slug":"woman-shot-and-killed-on-metro-bus-in-houston-houston-public-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115375\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman shot and killed on METRO bus in Houston \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-GFQzOXQAAYc0y.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-540175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-GFQzOXQAAYc0y.jpg\" alt=\"Police search for a suspect in the 3200 block Walnut Bend after a woman was shot and killed on a METRO Bus. Jan. 7, 2026. (X\/HPD)\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>X\/HPD<\/p>\n<p>Police search for a suspect in the 3200 block Walnut Bend after a woman was shot and killed on a METRO Bus. Jan. 7, 2026. (X\/HPD)<\/p>\n<p>A woman is dead following a shooting on a METRO bus in Houston on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Houston Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>As of approximately 5 p.m. Wednesday, HPD said it and the METRO Police Department, along with K9 units, were searching for the suspected shooter, who was described as a man in his late teens or early 20s. He is about 6-foot-tall and was wearing a black hoodie with gray shorts and \u201csliders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred in the 3200 block of Walnut Bend.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim was a woman in her mid-20s and that she had not yet been identified. After the shooting she was transported to a hospital, where she later died as a result of her injuries, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Houston Public Media, a METRO spokesperson said the shooting occurred on bus #2611 on Route 161 near Walnut Bend at Richmond Avenue at approximately 2:32 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>METRO Police Chief Ban Tien said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon that someone entered a METRO bus and shot the woman. Police said the preliminary investigation did not indicate that the suspected shooter knew the victim. <\/p>\n<p>However, Tien said the shooter was targeting &#8220;certain individuals&#8221; when the victim was shot. Tien described the victim as an &#8220;innocent bystander.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Tien said no other injuries were reported and that HPD would take over as the primary investigators and treat the case as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Tien asked that anyone in the area at the time of the shooting to come forward with any possible information. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"X\/HPD Police search for a suspect in the 3200 block Walnut Bend after a woman was shot and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[294,5457,56,58,25268,57,2543,66,50531,223,672,840],"class_list":["post-115375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-metro","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-police-department","tag-local","tag-metro-police-department","tag-news","tag-police","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115375","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=115375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}