{"id":265933,"date":"2026-04-25T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265933\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:09:08","slug":"police-call-toddlers-death-a-terrible-accident-after-being-hit-by-a-patrol-car-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265933\/","title":{"rendered":"Police call toddler\u2019s death a ‘terrible accident’ after being hit by a patrol car in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the family was getting into the car, the boy slipped away from his parents and ran out into the apartment’s road, the Houston Police Department said. <\/p>\n

HOUSTON \u2014 A 1-year-old boy died after he\u00a0slipped away from his parents<\/a>, who were loading up their vehicle, and was hit by a car Friday night at an apartment complex in Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Houston Police Department said the boy got away from his parents and ran into the road while his family was getting into their car.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That’s when police said a security guard who was patrolling the complex hit the boy with his car.<\/p>\n

Police said the guard and the boy’s father immediately called 911 and started emergency first aid before deciding to try and rush the boy to the hospital.<\/p>\n

By the time they loaded the child into the guard’s car and got to the front of the apartment complex, first responders had arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The boy was then rushed to an area hospital, where he ultimately died from his injuries.<\/p>\n

The security guard reportedly stayed at the scene and fully cooperated with investigators, according to police. Authorities said no charges were filed Friday night, but the investigation is ongoing. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Preliminary investigation just shows tonight this is a terrible accident,” Houston police Sgt. Thomas Fendia said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the family was getting into the car, the boy slipped away from his parents and ran out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-265933","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\/265933","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=265933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}