{"id":442433,"date":"2026-09-21T00:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442433\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T00:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:16:19","slug":"west-houston-shooting-involving-off-duty-harris-county-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442433\/","title":{"rendered":"West Houston shooting involving off-duty Harris County deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/flock-harris-county-sheriff-investigation-22389112.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County sheriff&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0deputy shot a man Sunday evening in West Houston, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred in the 7200 block of Rio Blanco Drive, Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies were responding to the scene Sunday evening, and an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez said preliminary information indicates the off-duty deputy fired her weapon and struck a man. The condition of the man who was struck is unknown, Gonzalez said. He was flown to a hospital via\u00a0LifeFlight.<\/p>\n<p>The off-duty deputy &#8220;sustained some minor scratches,&#8221; Gonzalez said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty\u00a0Harris County sheriff&#8217;s\u00a0deputy shot a man Sunday evening in West Houston, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-442433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442433","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=442433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}