{"id":408280,"date":"2026-08-16T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408280\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:52:10","slug":"one-dead-two-injured-in-southeast-houston-party-police-search-for-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408280\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, two injured in Southeast Houston party; police search for suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-16-101937.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; One man is dead and two others were injured early Sunday morning after an argument at a large gathering escalated into a shootout, police said.<\/p>\n<p>   Southeast Houston 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 responded around 4 a.m. to a shooting call in the 13300 block of Cullen Boulevard in southeast Houston. Upon arrival, officers found two adult men suffering from gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston Fire Department paramedics took both men to a nearby hospital, where one of the victims was pronounced dead. His identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-16-102024.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A third adult male victim later arrived at the hospital via private vehicle. Details on his condition and the extent of his injuries were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to preliminary investigation, a large crowd had gathered in the area when a verbal argument broke out and turned physical. A suspect pulled a gun and began firing into the crowd, prompting multiple individuals\u2014including at least one of the gunshot victims\u2014to return fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspect then started to fire rounds into the crowd. Multiple people from the crowd started to fire back, police officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police noted that the victim who returned fire was not the individual who died in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No suspects were in custody as of Sunday morning. Detectives with the Houston Police Department&#8217;s Homicide Division are continuing to investigate the incident.<\/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; One man is dead and two others were injured early Sunday morning after an argument&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-408280","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\/408280","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=408280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}