{"id":247136,"date":"2026-04-13T04:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:37:13","slug":"houstons-slab-community-honors-33-year-old-killed-in-paradise-city-shooting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247136\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s slab community honors 33-year-old killed in Paradise City shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Sunday, slab cars lined bumper to bumper in southwest Houston to honor the life of a man shot and killed last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The street was packed with people there for 33-year-old Miguel Padilla, also known as Mike. They said he was a legend in Houston&#8217;s slab car community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;My words won&#8217;t do justice as far as all of the people of all different races and spaces that came just to show their face and show love and their condolences to the family,&#8221; said supporter, Pico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The community said they came together to honor one of their own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We really come out to support my guy Mike from the blue slab line North Side,&#8221; said friend, Polo Saucy. &#8220;Mike is pretty big. He&#8217;s kind of like a big brother to the blue slab line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Padilla&#8217;s wife told ABC13 she&#8217;s processing her grief one day at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s hard. I think I&#8217;m just going with the flow, rolling with the process right now,&#8221; said Padilla&#8217;s wife, Monica Castillo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She said seeing all of the people come out to support, confirms to her what she already knew about her husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Clearly, he was loved by everybody,&#8221; Castillo said. &#8220;He spread love and joy everywhere he went.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s been just over a week since his death. According to the Houston Police Department, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/1-dead-injured-shooting-paradise-city-gentlemens-club-west-gulf-freeway-hpd-says\/18839848\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the fatal shooting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;the fatal shooting&quot;}\" class=\"link \">the fatal shooting<\/a> happened last Saturday morning around 5 a.m. outside Paradise City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers said Padilla was pronounced dead at the scene and another man was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believed what started as an altercation inside the club spilled out into the parking lot, and someone opened fire into a crowd, hitting multiple people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, HPD released surveillance video from inside the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials wanted to question the people seen in the footage, because they believe they may have been involved in the fight that led to gunfire outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/hpd-releases-video-6-people-004920906.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:HPD releases video of 6 people wanted for questioning after deadly shooting at gentlemen&#039;s club;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;HPD releases video of 6 people wanted for questioning after deadly shooting at gentlemen&#039;s club&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HPD releases video of 6 people wanted for questioning after deadly shooting at gentlemen&#8217;s club<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the people they want to question may have been riding in a red or maroon sedan and a white SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Houston police or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday, slab cars lined bumper to bumper in southwest Houston to honor the life of a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[93925,56,58,57,2543,93923,93924,12915],"class_list":["post-247136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bumper-to-bumper","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-police-department","tag-miguel-padilla","tag-monica-castillo","tag-southwest-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247136","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=247136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}