{"id":392333,"date":"2026-07-30T18:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:35:44","slug":"corpus-christi-man-on-horseback-assaults-staff-with-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392333\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi man on horseback assaults staff with rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Corpus Christi man is facing multiple charges after police say he arrived at a location on horseback and assaulted staff members with a rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi Police Department officers were dispatched to the 400 block of Starr Drive on July 25, 2026, in reference to an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p>After investigation, officers determined that Deeandre McGee, 27, a documented gang member, arrived at the location on horseback and physically assaulted staff with a rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the violent nature of the incident, CCPD&#8217;s Gang Unit investigated the case, which was further adopted by NIBIN.<\/p>\n<p>On July 29, 2026, a CCPD NIBIN detective obtained 2 warrants for McGee for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and engaging in organized criminal activity. With assistance from CCPD&#8217;s Violent Crimes Unit and Drone Unit, gang officers took McGee into custody during a traffic stop on his 2 active warrants. McGee was additionally charged with manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance PG 1 &gt;= 4G &lt; 200G and unlawful carrying of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>A search warrant was obtained and executed in the 1100 block of Green Leaf Drive. A rifle matching the description of the one used during the assault was located.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Corpus Christi man is facing multiple charges after police say he arrived at a location on horseback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1099,7858,155,157,156,2615,138084,138085,138086],"class_list":["post-392333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-ccpd","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-police-department","tag-deeandre-mcgee","tag-horseback","tag-organized-criminal-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392333","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=392333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}