{"id":155379,"date":"2026-02-07T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155379\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:30:08","slug":"man-fatally-shot-outside-houston-westside-strip-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155379\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally shot outside Houston Westside strip center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A man has died after being shot outside a strip center in Houston&#8217;s Westside Friday night, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston: Kirkwood Road strip center shooting <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kirkwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police say they were called to a shooting at about 8:30 p.m. Friday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1900+S+Kirkwood+Rd,+Houston,+TX+77077\/@29.7526952,-95.5912968,15.5z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640dc96a54c5819:0x200956f3d5a0e1c9!8m2!3d29.7472448!4d-95.5872884!16s%2Fg%2F11c2h43b84?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIwNC4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA2N0gBUAM%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">South Kirkwood Road and Briar Forest Drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officers found a man with a gunshot wound to his upper body. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/houstonpolice\/status\/2019975988059468103?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">HPD shared on social media<\/a> that the suspects drove off in a burgundy sedan.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officers at the scene spoke to witnesses and worked to gather any surveillance footage of the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Homicide detectives are continuing the investigation.<\/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=\"\">No one involved has been identified. The victim is believed to be in his early 40s.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">There is no suspect description available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: OnScene and Houston Police Department.<\/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> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A man has died after being shot outside a strip center in Houston&#8217;s Westside Friday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-155379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155379","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=155379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}