{"id":150621,"date":"2026-02-04T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150621\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:26:08","slug":"houston-area-sees-alarming-spike-in-guns-on-school-campuses-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150621\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Area Sees Alarming Spike In Guns On School Campuses | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen a disturbing trend pick up across the Houston area recently, with Fox 26 reporting on three different cases of guns being brought to Houston-area schools during one 16-day period in January. Two of the suspects in these cases were 18-year-old students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/2-students-1-adult-charged-taking-guns-area-high-schools-16-day-period-last-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fox 26 also reported <\/a>that in one instance, the 18-year-old student attempted to hide the gun on a school bus, hinting that he could have been planning something more nefarious.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Kahan with <a href=\"https:\/\/crime-stoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crime Stoppers Houston<\/a> is now sounding the alarm about the potential for a violent incident at our schools. \u201cIf you\u2019re bringing a gun onto a school campus,\u201d he said, \u201cthings can escalate, and you can end up in a school shooting situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kahan also pointed out that we only know about these three cases because the suspects are legal adults. \u201cWe have no idea right now how many other students that are considered juveniles have been charged with similar offenses,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to question where these students are getting firearms and says this is a key reason why properly and securely storing your firearm is such an important part of gun safety. Kahan also pointed to the rise of social-media-related threats and anxiety as a reason that more students might be bringing guns to school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve seen a disturbing trend pick up across the Houston area recently, with Fox 26 reporting on three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-150621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150621","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=150621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}