{"id":174351,"date":"2026-02-21T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:06:08","slug":"west-houston-homeowner-shot-killed-during-reported-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174351\/","title":{"rendered":"West Houston homeowner shot, killed during reported burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-21-08h35m12s063.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A homeowner was shot and killed in a reported burglary in west Houston early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Houston police said they were called to a burglary in progress just after midnight Saturday in the 1200 block of South Kirkwood Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police said the caller reported hearing glass break and called their spouse to come home. According to police, an altercation broke out and gunfire ensued.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The homeowner and the suspect were both shot. They were both taken to an area hospital where the homeowner died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police said the suspect has been charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Multiple people were inside the home at the time of the shooting.<\/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=\"\">The victim&#8217;s identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police did not identify the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <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\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOUSTON &#8211; A homeowner was shot and killed in a reported burglary in west Houston early Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-174351","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\/174351","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=174351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}