{"id":430819,"date":"2026-09-09T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430819\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:32:18","slug":"harris-county-public-defender-accused-in-hammer-attack-on-ex-boyfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430819\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris County public defender accused in hammer attack on ex-boyfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788975138_7_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b05d485a=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A Harris County public defender was arrested and charged after allegedly attacking her ex-boyfriend at the home he was staying at.<\/p>\n<p>   Public defender accused in hammer attack <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Brianna Berry was charged with burglary of a habitation and aggravated assault against a family member, according to court documents. She was arrested on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Records state Berry was employed full-time at the Harris County Public Defender&#8217;s Office. She had not been employed a full month.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Berry is accused of breaking into her ex-boyfriend&#8217;s aunt&#8217;s home. She allegedly attacked the ex with a hammer and bit him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Her bond is set at $4,000 for both charges.<\/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=\"\">The motive behind the attack is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Harris County District Clerk court records<\/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":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A Harris County public defender was arrested and charged after allegedly attacking her ex-boyfriend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053],"class_list":["post-430819","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\/430819","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=430819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}