{"id":151982,"date":"2026-02-05T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/151982\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:48:17","slug":"contract-worker-shot-another-pistol-whipped-by-robbery-suspect-in-houstons-fifth-ward-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/151982\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract worker shot, another pistol-whipped by robbery suspect in Houston&#8217;s Fifth Ward, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A suspect is on the run after allegedly shooting one worker and assaulting another in Houston&#8217;s Fifth Ward, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston Fifth Ward shooting: Railroad workers attacked <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/slack-imgs.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">(Photo credit: Houston Police) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The incident was reported at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2000+Gregg+St,+Houston,+TX+77026\/@29.7811619,-95.3449224,14.5z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640b936af46fbd9:0x912e008c3137c1a0!8m2!3d29.7799174!4d-95.3355716?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIwMS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA2N0gBUAM%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gregg Street near Sumpter Street.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Houston police tell FOX 26 that two contractors for Union Pacific were approached by an armed male suspect wearing a mask. Allegedly, the suspect robbed the two workers, shooting one and pistol-whipping the other in the process, before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police say the worker who was shot suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The worker was sent to a hospital and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officials were unable to provide a description of suspect during a news briefing on Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Authorities are looking for surveillance video in the area to get a better description of the suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" 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-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/fifth-ward\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fifth Ward<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A suspect is on the run after allegedly shooting one worker and assaulting another in Houston&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,62986,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-151982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fifth-ward","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151982","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=151982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}