{"id":364255,"date":"2026-07-07T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364255\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:24:10","slug":"houston-attorney-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-death-of-best-friend-in-university-place-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364255\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston attorney charged with murder in shooting death of &#8216;best friend&#8217; in University Place, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A Houston attorney has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of his roommate in late June, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Houston Police Department shared that the shooting happened June 27 at 11:55 p.m. in the 1600 block of Vassar Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers said they responded to a shooting call and were flagged down by Michael Driver, who identified himself as the alleged shooter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Documents state Driver told police he was in a fight with Jesse Reyes, who is his &#8220;best friend&#8221; and &#8220;bodyguard,&#8221; when Reyes got into his face and got violent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Driver also accused Reyes of trying to gouge his left eye out and that it was a &#8220;kill or be killed&#8221; situation, records alleged. During the incident, Driver said he pulled a gun out and fired at Reyes multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities added that Reyes is one of the people living in the home the shooting took place at. Investigators also reported finding a .45-caliber handgun in the dining room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Documents show Driver is an attorney at Driver Law Firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">An investigation continues into the case.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A Houston attorney has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[129102,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-364255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-129102","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364255","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=364255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}