{"id":377333,"date":"2026-07-17T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:33:21","slug":"harris-county-murder-suspect-told-investigators-he-was-afraid-of-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377333\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris County murder suspect told investigators he was &#8216;afraid&#8217; of victim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; Harris County officials have identified the victim and suspect from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/man-critically-injured-harris-county-shooting-rolling-creek-drive-deputies-investigating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">deadly shooting in northeast Harris County<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Scott Douglas Wildman is charged with murder and booked into Harris County Jail for the death of 43-year-old Stephan Duman.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/scott-wildman-mugshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   Roller Creek Drive shooting <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">On Tuesday, Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office District 2 deputies received an in-progress call for a shooting at a home on Rolling Creek Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When deputies arrived, they found Duman lying in the roadway with gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators at the scene found Wildman in a nearby home and had him detained. He cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Homicide detectives quickly learned Wildman and Duman had gotten into an argument that escalated into a shooting. Wildman told investigators he shot Duman because he was afraid.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Wildman was arrested and officially charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information provided by the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/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\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/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":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; Harris County officials have identified the victim and suspect from the deadly shooting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,405,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-377333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-harris-county","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\/377333","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=377333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}