{"id":25327,"date":"2025-10-28T23:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25327\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:55:24","slug":"university-of-houston-reports-armed-robbery-in-student-center-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25327\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Houston reports armed robbery in student center \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20200312-IMG_0894-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-363586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20200312-IMG_0894-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The University of Houston\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucio Vasquez \/ Houston Public Media<\/p>\n<p>Pictured is the University of Houston campus.<\/p>\n<p>An armed bank robbery occurred Tuesday afternoon at the University of Houston student center, according to a campus security alert from the university. <\/p>\n<p>According to the UH alert, a man with a handgun allegedly robbed the Texas Dupont Employees Credit Union (TDECU)  at the Student Center South at approximately 4:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected robber is described as a Black man wearing a black Astros baseball hat and a black long-sleeve hoodie with black pants and white shoes. <\/p>\n<p>He was last seen driving toward the MLK Southbound\/Calhoun exit in a silver SUV. The weapon was described as a black handgun. <\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday evening, a university spokesperson said no further details were available. A spokesperson for the Houston Police Department said it was not involved with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: Houston Public Media is licensed to the University of Houston System. The university does not play a role in Houston Public Media\u2019s editorial decisions.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/about\/ethics-standards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Read our statement of ethics and standards here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucio Vasquez \/ Houston Public Media Pictured is the University of Houston campus. An armed bank robbery occurred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2239,5740,294,163,1182,56,58,57,66,223,17904,17905,513],"class_list":["post-25327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-armed-robbery","tag-campus-safety","tag-crime","tag-education","tag-education-news","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-uh-campus","tag-uh-student-center","tag-university-of-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25327","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=25327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}