{"id":355818,"date":"2026-06-30T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355818\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:53:09","slug":"utmb-security-guard-allegedly-attacked-by-suspect-who-approached-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355818\/","title":{"rendered":"UTMB security guard allegedly attacked by suspect who approached employee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A University of Texas Medical Branch security officer was assaulted after protecting an employee from an unknown driver early Sunday morning, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>   Security officer assaulted on Market Street <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Early Sunday morning around 5:58 a.m., a UTMB employee was walking along Market Street in Galveston when an unknown man pulled up to her in a 2010 Honda Accord.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A uniformed UTMB security officer saw what was happening and intervened, allowing the employee to get away safely.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mark-anthony-johnson-jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say the situation turned violent when the driver got out of his car and physically attacked the security officer. The attacker got back into his vehicle and sped off.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The security officer only sustained minor injuries from the encounter. They were able to take a picture of both the driver and the vehicle license plate.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators with the UTMB Police Department were able to identify the suspect as Mark Anthony Johnson Jr.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2010-honda-accord-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy of UTMB Police Department <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Johnson has an arrest warrant charging him with assault on a security officer. Local investigators are currently working alongside regional law enforcement partners to locate Johnson.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">If you spot Mark Anthony Johnson Jr. or have any information regarding his current whereabouts, you are urged to contact local law enforcement immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information is provided by the University of Texas Medical Branch.<\/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\/galveston-county\/galveston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galveston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A University of Texas Medical Branch security officer was assaulted after protecting an employee from an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,7216,12597,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-355818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-galveston","tag-galveston-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355818","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=355818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}