{"id":428141,"date":"2026-09-06T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428141\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:00:51","slug":"restaurant-customer-shoots-bystander-after-being-kicked-out-for-intoxication-hpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428141\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant customer shoots bystander after being kicked out for intoxication: HPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788710451_189_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, September 6, 2026 2:11PM<\/p>\n<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Houston police said they&#8217;re searching for an angry customer who is accused of shooting at a restaurant and injuring a bystander after he was kicked out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the restaurant&#8217;s owner kicked the suspect and his nephew out after they got intoxicated at the restaurant on Beechnut near Corporate in the Chinatown area of southwest Houston around 11:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers said the suspect went to his vehicle, got a gun, and began shooting at the place. Investigators said a man who wasn&#8217;t involved got shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to police, the victim was shot in the torso and leg. That man is still alive, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Officers said they know who the shooter is, but they haven&#8217;t released his identity. He isn&#8217;t in custody, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, September 6, 2026 2:11PM Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[148798,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-428141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-148798","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428141","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=428141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}