{"id":379079,"date":"2026-07-19T22:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379079\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:44:32","slug":"18-year-old-killed-family-member-injured-in-shooting-outside-north-harris-county-cantina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379079\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old killed, family member injured in shooting outside north Harris County cantina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A 19-year-old has been arrested for a shooting that injured another young man and killed his younger family member in north Harris County early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston crime: Shooting outside Mexcal Cantina <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The shooting was reported at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday outside Mexcal Cantina Pacifico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/14901+North+Fwy,+Houston,+TX+77090\/@29.9867903,-95.4283825,15.25z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640ca459daa630b:0x663a1dbe6d1b9405!8m2!3d29.9866307!4d-95.4244353!16s%2Fg%2F11bw4dw9_m?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">near I-45<\/a> and West Airtex Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When Harris County deputies arrived at the scene, they found two young men who had been shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/n-fwy.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Both men were taken to a hospital where one of them, 18-year-old Jonathan Mata, was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Mata&#8217;s 20-year-old family member was the second person shot. He is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say an argument broke out between two groups in the parking lot of the cantina. Someone from one of the groups, later identified as 19-year-old Juan Lopez, then pulled a gun out of a car and started shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Lopez allegedly drove off from the scene, but another person leaving the cantina followed him while giving details to 911.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/752723769_1564726831675845_8033501973564265038_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">(Photo courtesy of Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Lopez was detained by Houston Police and taken in for questioning. Harris County authorities later announced that Lopez had been arrested for murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No other details are available at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: OnScene and 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\/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 19-year-old has been arrested for a shooting that injured another young man and killed his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379080,"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-379079","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\/379079","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=379079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}