{"id":364104,"date":"2026-07-07T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:57:12","slug":"houston-attorney-charged-with-murder-in-vassar-street-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364104\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston attorney charged with murder in Vassar Street shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston lawyer was arrested and charged with murder for the shooting death of a man in University Place.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Michael Driver, 45, has been accused of shooting and killing 45-year-old Jesse Reyes at a home on Vassar Street on June 27.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to court documents, Driver is employed as a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/michael-driver.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Michael Stuart Driver mugshot <\/p>\n<p>  Man shot, killed by roommate in University Place <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston police officers were called about a shooting on June 27 around 11:55 p.m. on Vassar Street. When they arrived, officers were flagged down by a man who told them he was the shooter.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He told police he got into a physical altercation with the victim and at some point he pulled out a gun and shot him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Preliminary information from police stated Driver and Reyes lived in the home together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was provided by Houston Police Department and Harris County court records.\u00a0<\/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 Houston lawyer was arrested and charged with murder for the shooting death of a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364105,"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-364104","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\/364104","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=364104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}