{"id":333824,"date":"2026-06-12T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:30:08","slug":"texas-shooting-leaves-1-dead-and-9-injured-as-police-are-in-a-standoff-with-a-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333824\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas shooting leaves 1 dead and 9 injured as police are in a standoff with a suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIDLAND, Texas \u2014 A shooting Friday in Midland, Texas, left one person dead and nine others in the hospital, Mayor Lori Blong said.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect remained in a standoff with officers about two hours after the shooting, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting started around 8 a.m. in one part of the city before ending up near a veterinary hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It sounded like at least 40 shots were fired, said Andrea Mendias who works at an automobile body shop near the veterinary hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Video from Mendias showed a number of officers pouring out of the back of an armored police vehicle. Police were also sending robots into the area.<\/p>\n<p>Blong said the situation was still evolving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers are containing the situation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Midland Memorial Hospital reported four were in the operating room and five others were in stable condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDLAND, Texas \u2014 A shooting Friday in Midland, Texas, left one person dead and nine others in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5291,294,27,29,28,20637,991],"class_list":["post-333824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ap-a-wire","tag-crime","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-top-ap-news","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333824","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=333824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}