{"id":353627,"date":"2026-06-28T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353627\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:35:08","slug":"man-shot-killed-by-roommate-at-university-place-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353627\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot, killed by roommate at University Place home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A man died overnight after Houston Police say he was shot by his roommate in their University Place home.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston University Place: Man killed by roommate <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police were called to a home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1600+Vassar+St,+Houston,+TX+77006\/@29.7292198,-95.4028416,16z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640c086aefeba75:0xf0c5321e4cf0510a!8m2!3d29.7305987!4d-95.3996659!16s%2Fg%2F11c5m4tg1s?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on Vassar Street<\/a>, near the Southwest Freeway and Mandell Street, at about 11:55 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers responded to the call and found a man who had been shot in his chest. Paramedics were called to help, but the victim was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/vassar.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say the suspect and victim were friends who lived together at the home where the shooting happened. The suspect was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No one involved has been identified.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">There are no details on what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: OnScene and Houston Police<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A man died overnight after Houston Police say he was shot by his roommate in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-353627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353627","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=353627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}