{"id":354743,"date":"2026-06-29T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/354743\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:40:10","slug":"harris-county-assault-suspect-shot-by-dps-trooper-after-chase-into-leon-county-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/354743\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris County assault suspect shot by DPS trooper after chase into Leon County, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LEON COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A suspect accused of aggravated assault in Harris County was shot by a Department of Public Safety trooper on Monday morning in Leon County after a pursuit with law enforcement, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the Leon County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, deputies received a report of a chase on IH-45 northbound as it entered their jurisdiction from Madison County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said the suspect vehicle was also involved in an aggravated robbery in Walker County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sheriff&#8217;s office said the chase continued into Leon County before it ended near mile marker 163 NB on IH-45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to DPS, one of its troopers shot the suspect, who was then transported to a medical center in Temple in critical condition. Authorities said no DPS troopers were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials advised the public to avoid the area if possible as law enforcement responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Leon County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the Texas Rangers are leading the investigation, which is currently underway.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEON COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A suspect accused of aggravated assault in Harris County was shot by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[126227,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-354743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-126227","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354743","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=354743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}