{"id":363411,"date":"2026-07-07T01:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363411\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:34:33","slug":"hcso-seeks-tips-after-child-hit-by-likely-celebratory-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363411\/","title":{"rendered":"HCSO seeks tips after child hit by likely celebratory gunfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year-old was shot by gunfire that was likely celebratory on\u00a0the 4th of July, according to the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>A bullet struck the child in the backyard of a home on the 1500 block of Park Drive in the Channelview area Saturday night, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote on social media. The child&#8217;s family was celebrating at the time, and the source of the gunfire is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The child was taken to the hospital and is in fair condition, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. Those with information can reach the sheriff&#8217;s office at 713-221-6000 or the Crime Stoppers of Houston nonprofit at 713-222-8477.<\/p>\n<p>This story may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year-old was shot by gunfire that was likely celebratory on\u00a0the 4th of July, according to the Harris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-363411","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\/363411","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=363411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}