{"id":252660,"date":"2026-04-16T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252660\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:31:08","slug":"officers-find-drugs-gun-inside-car-after-shootout-at-gas-station-between-a-womans-boyfriend-and-her-ex-in-ne-houston-hpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252660\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers find drugs, gun inside car after shootout at gas station between a woman&#8217;s boyfriend, and her ex in NE Houston, HPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Two men and a woman are in custody following a shootout in northeast Houston overnight, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said it happened near Highway 59 and Tidwell Road around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers with HPD said they saw two men at a gas station who began fighting. HPD said once they tried to intervene, both men pulled out pistols and started shooting at each other before taking off from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One of the suspetced shooters ran away on foot and reportedly tossed a pistol before being apprehended by officials. HPD said the man was limping, but it is unclear if he was hit by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The second alleged shooter got into his car and tried to leave before ultimately being stopped by police. HPD said there was a woman in the car with the man, and it was determined that the man driving was her boyfriend, and the other shooter was her ex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers said they found a gun, cocaine, and heroin inside the car, leading to the woman and the man being detained, HPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HPD did not say what led to the meetup between the three or what led to the gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Two men and a woman are in custody following a shootout in northeast Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[95515,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-252660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-95515","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252660","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=252660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}