{"id":334647,"date":"2026-06-13T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334647\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:09:09","slug":"shooter-kills-1-and-injures-10-in-texas-days-after-firing-at-a-police-officer-officials-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334647\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooter kills 1 and injures 10 in Texas days after firing at a police officer, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QHBICT3OARFKPAO64WJBHUUP34\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A man who opened fire in the West Texas city of Midland in an attack Friday morning that left one person dead and 10 injured had shot at a police officer just days earlier during a chase, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KL2BUFWS4NDJHN3R4R2DFHQD2M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The suspect, 45-year-old Victor Mata Villarreal, already was being sought by authorities when he began firing at police and bystanders in Midland on Friday before barricading himself in an abandoned veterinary clinic, where he was eventually found dead, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who opened fire in the West Texas city of Midland in an attack Friday morning that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,490,865,3346,27,29,28,1499,119565,6878],"class_list":["post-334647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime","tag-general-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-shootings","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-u-s-news","tag-us-texas-shooting","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334647","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=334647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}