{"id":274033,"date":"2026-05-01T05:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274033\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:10:10","slug":"man-threatens-woman-with-machete-over-parking-spot-at-university-of-houston-court-docs-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274033\/","title":{"rendered":"Man threatens woman with machete over parking spot at University of Houston, court docs show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man is wanted after police say he threatened a woman with a machete during a dispute over a parking spot at the University of Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident happened on April 6 at about 9 p.m., according to University of Houston police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say the woman was sitting in her car while visiting a loved one who attends the university when a man got out of his vehicle, waved a machete, and yelled at her to move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman told police she left the parking space. Authorities say the man then took the spot before leaving the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police later called the man back to the parking lot, where the woman identified him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court records identify the suspect as Ricky Greer. A witness told investigators Greer claimed to be a university employee during the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A university source confirmed Greer worked there. A person with a similar name is listed on the university&#8217;s website as an employee in the engineering school. The university has not confirmed his current employment status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Records show the woman told investigators she did not want to press charges out of fear of retaliation against her relative, a university student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A warrant has been issued for Greer&#8217;s arrest on a charge of aggravated assault. Nearly a month after the incident, he had not been arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is wanted after police say he threatened a woman with a machete during a dispute over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,101541,101542,101543,513],"class_list":["post-274033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-machete","tag-parking-spot","tag-ricky-greer","tag-university-of-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274033","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=274033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}