{"id":409659,"date":"2026-08-18T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409659\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:40:23","slug":"houston-shooting-1-dead-1-injured-following-incident-on-oakmoor-parkway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409659\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston shooting: 1 dead, 1 injured following incident on Oakmoor Parkway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Houston police are on the scene after a deadly shooting in southwest Houston on Monday afternoon, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to authorities, the shooting occurred near the intersection of Oakmoor Parkway and Airport Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Houston police said a man was pronounced dead on the scene, another man was grazed in the shooting<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HOUSTON &#8211; A man is dead and another was injured following a shooting in southwest Houston on Monday afternoon, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oakmoor Parkway shooting: Houston police investigating deadly shooting<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to authorities, the shooting occurred near the intersection of Oakmoor Parkway and Airport Boulevard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kriv_fox_local_articles_563\/ff2e8a53d421353a9cef63d6f6430b38.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When officers arrived on the scene, they found a young adult male dead on the scene from an apparent gunshot wound.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As officers began checking the area, they found another apartment with several people were inside along with one man who had a graze wound.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a preliminary investigation, two middle school girls got off a school bus and officials said they had been having some kind of fight or argument. Officials said they apparently have been having the ongoing argument for several days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said several other people joined into the argument or fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities said the man who died on the scene did have a rifle and there was another man. The two exchanged gunfire in the courtyard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police believe the man with the graze wound is probably the shooter, so they believe they have everyone in custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials did not identify the victim or the suspect involved in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s unclear if the two men involved knew the middle school girls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Houston Police Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Houston police are on the scene after a deadly shooting in southwest Houston on Monday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[93774,5456,56,58,57,8063,143117,143116,12915],"class_list":["post-409659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-airport-boulevard","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-police","tag-middle-school-girls","tag-oakmoor-parkway","tag-southwest-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409659","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=409659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}