{"id":200415,"date":"2026-03-11T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200415\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:36:08","slug":"update-suspect-arrested-charged-in-fatal-shooting-at-9707-south-gessner-road-city-of-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200415\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Suspect Arrested, Charged in Fatal Shooting at 9707 South Gessner Road \u2013 City of Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charges have been filed against a suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of a male at 9707 South Gessner Road about 2:15 a.m. on March 2.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Milton Eleazar Hernandez-Lopez, 35, is charged with murder in the 339th Criminal District Court. Hernandez-Lopez\u2019s booking photo is attached to this news release.<\/p>\n<p>The victim is identified as Jose Luis Escobar Hernandez, 21.<\/p>\n<p>HPD Homicide Division Sergeant K. Persad and C. LaFour and Detectives L. Yasin, T. Tyler and A. Hernandez reported:<\/p>\n<p>HPD patrol officers responded to a shooting call at an apartment complex at the above address and found a male suffering from a gunshot wound. Houston Fire Department paramedics transported him to an area hospital, where doctors later pronounced him deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation identified Milton Eleazar Hernandez-Lopez as the suspect in this incident. On Tuesday (March 10), officers with HPD\u2019s South Gessner Patrol Division\u2019s Crime Suppression Team arrested Hernandez-Lopez. He admitted to his role in the incident and was subsequently charged and booked into the Harris County jail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5b5f029e-0025-b583-3243-8c8dfd7764a5-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41159\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charges have been filed against a suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of a male at 9707 South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-200415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200415","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=200415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}