{"id":41550,"date":"2025-11-08T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/41550\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:55:11","slug":"harris-co-deputies-arrest-2-in-assault-on-homeless-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/41550\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Co. deputies arrest 2 in assault on homeless man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/martinezfields.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said two men were arrested after allegedly assaulting a homeless man Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Xavier Martinez, 20, and 27-year-old Jace Fields were both charged with Class A assault.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Deputies said a man believed to be homeless was retrieving his clothing from a dumpster behind a business in the 13600 block of SH-249 when the men drove up to him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Martinez allegedly got out of the vehicle and pepper sprayed the man and took photos of him while he was disoriented, deputies said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, Fields recorded the assault and encouraged Martinez before they left the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The video was uploaded to Fields&#8217; Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Both men were booked into the Harris County Jail.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Deputies did not say why the men pepper sprayed the other man.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The victim&#8217;s condition was not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said two men were arrested after allegedly assaulting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,405,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-41550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41550","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=41550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}