{"id":119416,"date":"2026-01-11T23:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119416\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:28:12","slug":"houston-officer-fatally-shoots-armed-suspect-in-kashmere-gardens-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119416\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston officer fatally shoots &#8216;armed suspect&#8217; in Kashmere Gardens, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A man has died after being shot by a Houston officer in Kashmere Gardens, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston: Kashmere Gardens officer-involved shooting <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wayne.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police say calls started coming in shortly before 2:30 p.m. about a suspicious person with a weapon on Wayne Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to Assistant HPD Chief James Skelton, the suspect was threatening family members with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers responded to the calls, saw the suspect, made a perimeter around him, and allegedly called for him to drop the weapon. The suspect instead raised his weapon, according to police, leading one officer to shoot him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The suspect was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ddeq29zl0szkj47c.jpg\" alt=\"Suspect shot by Houston police in Kashmere Gardens | Full police report\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No one involved has been identified at this time. The suspect is said to be 29 years old, and the officer who shot him is a three-year veteran with HPD&#8217;s Northeast Division.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Other details about the incident leading to the shooting are not available at this time.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The shooting is being investigated by the Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, HPD&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit, and HPD&#8217;s Internal Affairs Unit.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Bodycam footage of the incident is said to be released in the next 30 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/kashmere-gardens\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kashmere Gardens<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A man has died after being shot by a Houston officer in Kashmere Gardens, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,17816,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-119416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-kashmere-gardens","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119416","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=119416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}