{"id":412889,"date":"2026-08-21T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412889\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:22:12","slug":"third-ward-shooting-woman-pistol-whipped-shot-after-carjacking-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412889\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Ward shooting: Woman pistol-whipped, shot after carjacking attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b993be58=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police are investigating a carjacking attempt that left a woman injured in the Third Ward early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Around 2:30 a.m., Houston Police Department officers received a call about a shooting in progress near the intersection of Eagle Street and Live Oak Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A woman in her mid-20s was visiting her boyfriend when an man approached her with a firearm and tried to steal her vehicle. During the encounter, the suspect pistol-whipped the victim in the back of the head and then shot her in the shoulder.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say the victim managed to escape and run to her boyfriend&#8217;s house to call 911. The suspect left the scene without taking the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston Fire Department paramedics took the victim to an area hospital, and she was last said to be in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities describe the suspect as a Black male who was wearing dark clothing and a black and white hat at the time of the incident.<\/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=\"\">Police have not located the suspect or identified him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police are investigating a carjacking attempt that left a woman injured in the Third Ward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053],"class_list":["post-412889","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-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412889","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=412889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}