{"id":399035,"date":"2026-08-06T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399035\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:14:09","slug":"19-year-old-killed-after-apparent-robbery-in-southeast-houston-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399035\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old killed after apparent robbery in southeast Houston, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shooting happened around 7:45 p.m. on Corder Street near Tierwester Street.<\/p>\n<p>Houston police identified the victim as Jose Acosta, 19. Officers responding to the scene found Acosta suffering from a gunshot wound inside a vehicle that had crashed into a ditch. He was taken to a hospital, where he died Tuesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Acosta and his 15-year-old brother were inside the vehicle when they were approached and robbed at gunpoint by three unknown men.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Acosta attempted to drive away when the suspects opened fire, striking him. His 15-year-old brother was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Houston Police Department Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/teen-killed-robbery-shooting-corder-street\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shooting happened around 7:45 p.m. on Corder Street near Tierwester Street. Houston police identified the victim as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-399035","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\/399035","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=399035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}