A man was shot Monday evening following a standoff with Houston police in the Highland Village area, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Just after 7:20 p.m., an officer running a license plate check on a vehicle parked in the 4100 block of\u00a0Westheimer learned the vehicle was reported stolen in Fort Bend County, said HPD Asst. Chief James Skelton.\u00a0The officer called for additional help, with more officers arriving a short time later.<\/p>\n
The man, who was\u00a0alone in the vehicle, was asked to get out of the car multiple times, Skelton said. After 25 minutes, the man had not left the vehicle, he added.<\/p>\n
As a team of officers approached the car, the man opened the door and made a movement, he said. Police then opened fire on\u00a0him.<\/p>\n
The man, believed to be in his 30s, was taken to an area hospital in stable condition, Skelton said.<\/p>\n
It was not known if the man had a weapon, he\u00a0said. Authorities also did not know\u00a0how many shots were fired or how many officers shot at the man.<\/p>\n
OnScene video from the area showed Westheimer closed off with caution tape at\u00a0Highland Village.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the shooting is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was shot Monday evening following a standoff with Houston police in the Highland Village area, authorities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-363582","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\/363582","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=363582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}