{"id":288100,"date":"2026-05-11T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288100\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:01:13","slug":"man-gets-on-roof-of-alief-isds-cummings-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288100\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets on roof of Alief ISD&#8217;s Cummings Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police confirm a man got on the roof of Alief ISD\u2019s Cummings Elementary on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to police, the man may have been in crisis.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police say he may have had a knife but dropped it while on the roof.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/alief.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Alief ISD says the school was placed on lockdown due to the unidentified, non-Alief ISD man.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">First responders got him down, and officials say a local law enforcement agency transported him.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">In a message to families, the district said, &#8220;Students and staff who were in the building during the incident were safe. The investigation is completed, the lockdown has been lifted, and the day will continue as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Thank you to our Alief ISD Police Department, local law enforcement agencies, and the Cummings Elementary staff for their support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The man&#8217;s identity was not released, and it&#8217;s unclear if he will face any charges.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials also did not say how he got on the roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Houston Police Department and Alief ISD.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/alief\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alief<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police confirm a man got on the roof of Alief ISD\u2019s Cummings Elementary on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[41427,1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-288100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-alief","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288100","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=288100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}