{"id":3510,"date":"2025-10-14T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3510\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:16:12","slug":"houston-swat-standoff-person-barricaded-in-apartment-on-main-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3510\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston SWAT standoff: Person barricaded in apartment on Main Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A person is barricaded inside a Midtown Houston apartment after allegedly firing a gun at a METRORail platform on Tuesday morning, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>   SWAT standoff <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to METRO, their police department received a report around 11 a.m. about an incident at the Ensemble\/HCC METRORail platform.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">METRO says there was some kind of incident between two people at a nearby convenience store which spilled over to the platform.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">METRO says the suspect fired a gun toward the ground and then entered a nearby apartment in the 4600 block of Main Street.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2025-10-14-14h17m26s925.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Houston Police Department responded to the scene and is leading the investigation. METRO police are providing support. SWAT is also at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">No injuries have been reported at this time.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It\u2019s unclear what sparked the initial incident. The person who is barricaded inside the apartment has not been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Houston Police Department and METRO.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A person is barricaded inside a Midtown Houston apartment after allegedly firing a gun at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-3510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-harris-county","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","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=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}