{"id":352666,"date":"2026-06-27T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:10:10","slug":"man-shoots-kills-brother-during-fight-struggle-over-weapon-houston-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352666\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shoots, kills brother during fight, struggle over weapon, Houston police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston police said a fight between brothers turned into gunshots Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 An investigation is underway after Houston police say a man fatally shot his brother during a fight Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>This happened at a home on Craigmont Street in the Gulfgate area around 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there had been some kind of family disturbance between the two brothers that grew into a fight. At some point, police said both brothers grabbed weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a struggle over those weapons,&#8221; said HPD Detective Smith. &#8220;So far, we have several different weapons that were involved. Who had what at what point in time is still in preliminary, working out the details on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, HPD said one of the brothers fatally shot the other and ran off. He has since been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The identities of the brothers have not been publicly released.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/crime\/craigmont-shooting-gulfgate-houston-brothers\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston police said a fight between brothers turned into gunshots Friday night. HOUSTON \u2014 An investigation is underway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-352666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352666","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=352666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}