{"id":305039,"date":"2026-05-22T20:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305039\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:48:29","slug":"person-of-interest-sought-in-fatal-shooting-of-16-year-old-in-se-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305039\/","title":{"rendered":"Person of interest sought in fatal shooting of 16-year-old in SE Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Person of interest known as “Junior” (Houston Police Department)<\/p>\n

HOUSTON \u2013 Houston police are seeking a person of interest in connection to the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old back on May 7.<\/p>\n

Jadiel Rodriguez was shot and killed in the 8700 block of Blackhawk Ridge Lane at about 3:55 p.m. on May 7. Another male was also shot and was taken to a hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n

HPD released a photo of the person of interest, who they say is only known as \u201cJunior\u201d. <\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the identity or whereabouts of the person of interest or in this case is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

About the AuthorChristian Terry<\/a><\/p>\n

Christian Terry covered digital news in Tyler and Wichita Falls before returning to the Houston area where he grew up. He is passionate about weather and the outdoors and often spends his days off on the water fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Person of interest known as “Junior” (Houston Police Department) HOUSTON \u2013 Houston police are seeking a person of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[294,56,58,57,110111,30479,95],"class_list":["post-305039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jadiel-rodriguez","tag-person-of-interest","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305039","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=305039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}