{"id":433107,"date":"2026-09-11T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433107\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:16:31","slug":"man-wanted-for-2023-alief-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433107\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted for 2023 Alief shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789154190_333_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b05d485a=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston Police are looking for a man accused of shooting and killing another man in the Alief area almost three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston crime: Suspect wanted for 2023 shooting <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say they&#8217;re looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/cityofhouston.news\/update-suspect-charged-wanted-in-2023-fatal-shooting-at-9301-dairy-view-lane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">31-year-old Alexander Funes-Vasquez<\/a>. He is said to be charged with murder for the death of 21-year-old Edward Josue Valladarez-Vargas.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789154191_497_64c87009-ee72-21d8-0e80-e6849cd056b3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">(Photo courtesy of Houston Police) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Valladarez-Vargas was pronounced deceased in October 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police responded to a call at an apartment complex on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/9301+Dairy+View+Ln,+Houston,+TX+77099\/@29.6804996,-95.6087162,15.25z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640dd795d38bb4f:0x9bab4476b9fc255e!8m2!3d29.6780371!4d-95.5990892!16s%2Fg%2F11c4xkl72c?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dairy View Lane<\/a>, near Bissonnet Street and South Dairy Ashford Road. Officers found Valladarez-Vargas lying by some bushes with a gunshot wound.<\/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 did not say how Funes-Vasquez was identified as a suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">There are no details on what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with information can call one of the following agencies:<\/p>\n<p> HPD Homicide Division: 713-308-3600Crime Stoppers: 713-222-TIPS (8477) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Tips reported to Crime Stoppers could lead to a reward of up to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police<\/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\/us\/tx\/houston\/alief\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alief<\/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 looking for a man accused of shooting and killing another man in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[41427,1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-433107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-alief","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433107","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=433107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}