{"id":21946,"date":"2025-10-26T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21946\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:11:08","slug":"driver-found-dead-with-multiple-gunshot-wounds-after-west-houston-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21946\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver found dead with multiple gunshot wounds after west Houston crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-26-105937.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">6400 Briar Terrace Dr. shooting (Source: Onscene) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A driver was found shot to death late Saturday after crashing into a parked vehicle on the city&#8217;s west side, according to the Houston Police Department (HPD).<\/p>\n<p>   West Houston Shooting <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It happened just after 9 p.m. in the 6400 block of Brier Terrace Drive. Police said the initial call came in as a traffic accident.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Residents at the location reported hearing a loud boom immediately outside their home. When they went outside to investigate, they found their parked car had been hit by another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;They started to approach the driver of that vehicle that hit their car, and they realized the driver had been shot multiple times,&#8221; Lt. Ali said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The residents immediately called the police. Emergency medical personnel arrived and pronounced the driver dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police have no information on what led up to the shooting. The homeowners did not recognize the driver or the vehicle that struck their car.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HPD&#8217;s Homicide Division took over the investigation. Responding officers canvassed the area, knocking on doors to gather any potential surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The identity of the deceased driver has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article 6400 Briar Terrace Dr. shooting (Source: Onscene) HOUSTON &#8211; A driver was found shot to death late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-21946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21946","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=21946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}