{"id":406113,"date":"2026-08-14T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406113\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:28:08","slug":"alleged-shooter-claims-self-defense-after-man-fatally-shot-in-w-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406113\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged shooter claims self-defense after man fatally shot in W. Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected shooter turned himself in<\/p>\n<p>Walnut Bend shooting (Houston Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 A man is dead and another man has turned himself in after a shooting on Houston\u2019s west side Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">It happened at 2816 Walnut Bend Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Lt. Larry Crowson said there was some sort of argument that escalated into the shooting. It is unclear what the argument was about at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The suspected shooter turned himself in to police after the shooting and is claiming self-defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/JB2Q1RZ712JI7KLO0BEWWLE7PS\/\" title=\"View Christian Terry&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Terry<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Christian Terry covered digital news in Tyler and Wichita Falls before returning to the Houston area where he grew up. He is passionate about weather and the outdoors and often spends his days off on the water fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspected shooter turned himself in Walnut Bend shooting (Houston Police Department) HOUSTON \u2013 A man is dead and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[294,56,58,57,95,142229],"class_list":["post-406113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-shooting","tag-walnut-bend-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406113","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=406113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}