{"id":383999,"date":"2026-07-23T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383999\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:28:09","slug":"teen-accused-of-fatally-shooting-59-year-old-clear-lake-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383999\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen accused of fatally shooting 59-year-old Clear Lake woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Dodson was charged with murder Wednesday, court records show. His bail has been temporarily denied pending a district court hearing, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Dodson is accused of firing a gun in the direction of the home of Sonia Cesar, 59, Tuesday afternoon at an apartment complex located at 240 El Dorado Blvd., according to the criminal complaint filed against him. Houston police responded to the call and found Cesar with a gunshot wound inside her apartment, police said. Cesar died at an area hospital, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dodson fled the scene on a bicycle, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Dodson did not have an attorney listed in court records as of Thursday. He is scheduled to appear in court Friday. Trae Alexis Mauricio, the public defender appointed to his probable cause hearing, could not be reached for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Dodson was charged with murder Wednesday, court records show. His bail has been temporarily denied pending a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-383999","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\/383999","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=383999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}