{"id":377918,"date":"2026-07-18T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377918\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:14:09","slug":"juvenile-shot-during-large-gathering-near-discovery-green-in-downtown-houston-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377918\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile shot during large gathering near Discovery Green in Downtown Houston, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A juvenile was shot near Discovery Green, and police are still searching for a suspect, the Houston Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators said the shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Friday on Leeland and Austin in downtown Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A group of adults were fighting before someone pulled out a gun and opened fire, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers said a group of 100 kids were nearby but not involved. One of the juvenile males was shot in the armpit, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Discovery Green area has seen a number of violent crimes this summer, with this incident coming weeks after <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/arrested-connection-weekend-teen-takeover-downtown-houston-police-department-says\/19304259\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">six juveniles were arrested during a &#8220;teen takeover&#8221;<\/a> in the same area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HPD said the kid who was shot is expected to be OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Investigators said there is no description of the shooter, and they are trying to obtain surveillance video from nearby cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A juvenile was shot near Discovery Green, and police are still searching for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[133649,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-377918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-133649","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377918","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=377918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}