{"id":252912,"date":"2026-04-16T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252912\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:33:09","slug":"houston-school-in-secure-mode-as-a-swat-scene-unfolds-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252912\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston school in secure mode as a SWAT scene unfolds nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Houston ISD school was in secure mode Thursday morning due to an unrelated SWAT situation happening at a nearby vacant home.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials said the situation began after a police chase that started as a traffic stop and ended near the school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/long-academy-secure-mode-houston-police-swat\/285-d36af7e4-f3ef-452c-a161-7b2bb232bd6f\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KHOU reported. <\/a>A person\u00a0got out of the car and ran into a vacant house on Leader Street.<\/p>\n<p>Long Academy, at 6501\u00a0Bellaire Blvd. in southwest Houston, was placed into secure mode as a precaution, and district police officers were on campus. All doors were locked, and no one was permitted to leave or enter the building.\u00a0 A separate power outage, unrelated to police activity, was also impacting the school, the district said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe assure you that we take all threats seriously as the safety of our students and staff is always our top priority,\u201d the district said in a statement. \u201cWe will share additional information as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Houston ISD school was in secure mode Thursday morning due to an unrelated SWAT situation happening at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-252912","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\/252912","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=252912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}