{"id":293197,"date":"2026-05-14T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293197\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:34:11","slug":"police-arrest-man-in-connection-to-houston-methodist-employee-stabbing-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293197\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest man in connection to Houston Methodist employee stabbing \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"Houston<\/p>\n

Macie Kelly \/ Houston Public Media <\/p>\n

Houston Methodist Hospital sign in the Texas Medical Center on July 24,2019<\/p>\n

Houston police arrested a man on Wednesday in connection with the stabbing of an employee at Houston Methodist hospital<\/a> earlier this week in the Texas Medical Center.<\/p>\n

Perry Green, 46, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, according to Harris County court records.<\/p>\n

The Houston Police Department and the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) Police arrested him on Wednesday<\/a>, according to HPD.<\/p>\n

Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n

Police responded around 6:40 a.m. Monday to a victim with stab wounds, according to a spokesperson for HPD. The victim was then taken to Houston Methodist, where she was released on Monday and \u201clet everyone know that she is doing well and remains in good spirits,\u201d a hospital spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

A defense attorney for Green was not listed in online court records as of Thursday.<\/p>\n

Court records indicate Green had previously been convicted of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon in 2011 for attempting to steal a car with a deadly weapon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macie Kelly \/ Houston Public Media Houston Methodist Hospital sign in the Texas Medical Center on July 24,2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[294,56,52581,58,107098,57,2543,66,107099,223,672,1225,14969],"class_list":["post-293197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime","tag-houston","tag-houston-crime","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-methodist-hospital","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-police-department","tag-local","tag-metro-police","tag-news","tag-police","tag-public-safety","tag-texas-medical-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293197","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=293197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}