{"id":379010,"date":"2026-07-19T21:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379010\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:05:52","slug":"19-year-old-charged-with-murder-after-shooting-that-killed-man-injured-another-hcso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379010\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old charged with murder after shooting that killed man, injured another, HCSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A 19-year-old man is facing murder charges after a shooting that killed an 18-year-old and injured a 20-year-old outside a north Harris County restaurant, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the shooting happened along the North Freeway near Airtex at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to deputies, two groups of people got into an argument in the parking lot before the suspect went to his car, grabbed a gun, and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An 18-year-old died, but a 20-year-old who was injured is expected to live, deputies said. Both victims were relatives, HCSO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HCSO later identified Jonathan Mata as the teen who died in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the sheriff&#8217;s office, after the shooter fled the scene in a black Chevy Camaro, a witness who was with Mata followed him while on the phone with 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Deputies said the Houston Police Department found the shooter at a location in Houston&#8217;s south side and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He was identified as 19-year-old Juan Lopez and was charged with murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, HCSO said, adding that he has been booked in the Harris County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A 19-year-old man is facing murder charges after a shooting that killed an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[133941,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-379010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-133941","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379010","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=379010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}