{"id":333839,"date":"2026-06-12T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333839\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:43:08","slug":"texas-shooting-leaves-1-dead-and-9-injured-police-in-standoff-with-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333839\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas shooting leaves 1 dead and 9 injured; police in standoff with suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shooting Friday in Midland, Texas, left one person dead and nine others in the hospital, Mayor Lori Blong said.<\/p>\n<p>The possible suspect in the shooting was in a standoff with officers, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers heard gunfire coming from the building and worked quickly to secure and clear the area. Armored units were deployed, and partner agencies assisted in the response,&#8221; Police Chief Greg Snow said around midday Friday.<\/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 added, &#8220;This is an ongoing investigation. We will not confirm additional details until law enforcement has completed a thorough review and all facts are established.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooting Friday in Midland, Texas, left one person dead and nine others in the hospital, Mayor Lori&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-333839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333839","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=333839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}