{"id":401923,"date":"2026-08-09T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401923\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:02:11","slug":"police-involved-shooting-leaves-gunman-and-victim-dead-inside-houston-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401923\/","title":{"rendered":"Police-involved shooting leaves gunman and victim dead inside Houston parking garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-09-091916.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Two men are dead after an officer-involved shooting late Sunday night inside a southwest Houston parking garage, police said.<\/p>\n<p>   Two dead in Houston parking garage shooting <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston Police officers were dispatched around 11:45 p.m. to a report of a person down inside a parking garage at 8820 Westheimer Road in the Mid West and Briarmeadow area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When officers arrived six minutes later, they found a gunman standing over an unresponsive male who had a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to police, officers ordered the gunman to drop his weapon. When the man failed to comply, multiple officers fired their weapons, striking him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston Fire Department paramedics responded to the scene and pronounced both men deceased.\u00a0<\/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=\"\">The identities of the victim and the gunman have not yet been released, and police said the gunman&#8217;s criminal history is currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The shooting remains under investigation by the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Houston Police department and Onscene.<\/p>\n<p>    <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\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOUSTON &#8211; Two men are dead after an officer-involved shooting late Sunday night inside a southwest Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-401923","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-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401923","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=401923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}