{"id":381540,"date":"2026-07-21T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381540\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:31:08","slug":"man-shot-in-head-after-metro-bus-fight-police-search-for-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381540\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot in head after Metro bus fight, police search for suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man is in critical condition after being shot in the head Tuesday afternoon following an altercation on a Metro bus.<\/p>\n

The Houston Police Department said in a post on X Tuesday afternoon that its officers, along with Metro police and Precinct 7 constable deputies, were at a shooting scene in the 5800 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard.<\/p>\n

The shooting occurred around 1:45 p.m. after two people argued on the bus and continued the dispute after they got off, Metro said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A third person who was not on the bus but appeared to know one of the people involved in the argument shot one of the men in the head, Metro said.<\/p>\n

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The suspect fled the scene on a scooter, police said. The man was taken to a hospital, where he remained in critical condition as of 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Metro.<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts are with the victim, their loved ones and everyone affected by this incident,” Metro said in a statement. “The safety of our customers, employees and the community remains our top priority.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in critical condition after being shot in the head Tuesday afternoon following an altercation on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-381540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381540","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=381540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}