{"id":244234,"date":"2026-04-10T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244234\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:26:10","slug":"19-year-old-arrested-accused-of-killing-man-in-nw-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244234\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old arrested, accused of killing man in NW Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A 19-year-old has been arrested and charged for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/houston-shooting-hollister-2026-march-update-person-interest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">man&#8217;s shooting death in northwest Houston<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston Hollister Road shooting: Suspect arrested <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Court records confirm 19-year-old Brandon Cheatom is in custody for the death of 27-year-old Darly Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Cheatom is charged with murder and failure to identify oneself to a peace officer. As of Friday, there is only a $1,000 bond set for the &#8220;failure to identify&#8221; charge.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e02efb51-hollister.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">On March 28 at about 10 p.m., police say there was a call about a man deceased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3801+Hollister+Rd,+Houston,+TX+77080\/@29.8257009,-95.5107692,16.42z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640c5b001dd4c63:0x50e0626aa8655dd3!8m2!3d29.8250077!4d-95.5092135?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMzMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on Hollister Road<\/a> near Sonneville Drive. Officers responded and found the man, now known as Hernandez, on a sidewalk with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police then released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/houston-shooting-hollister-2026-march-update-person-interest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">surveillance footage on April 2<\/a> in hopes of finding a person of interest in the video. A tip regarding the footage helped police identify Cheatom as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Details about the shooting are not available at this time.<\/p>\n<p> Bond denial request <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">A motion has been filed for a hearing to deny Cheatom&#8217;s bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to records, the motion was filed since Cheatom is accused of killing Hernandez while under supervision for a different felony.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Records show that Cheatom was put on an eight-year probation last November after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police, previous FOX 26 reporting, and records from the Harris County District Clerk&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" 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-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A 19-year-old has been arrested and charged for a man&#8217;s shooting death in northwest Houston last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-244234","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-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244234","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=244234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}