{"id":447478,"date":"2026-09-25T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447478\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:44:11","slug":"westbury-high-school-student-dies-after-shooting-near-school-hpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447478\/","title":{"rendered":"Westbury High School student dies after shooting near school, HPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old student at Westbury High School died Friday morning after a shooting near the campus, according to Houston Police Department Chief J. Noe Diaz during a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred around 8:30 a.m., Diaz said.<\/p>\n<p>Houston police responded to a shooting at 11911 Chimney Rock Road in southwest Houston, the same address for Westbury High School in Houston ISD, but it was not immediately clear if the shooting was on school property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Houston ISD confirmed to the Houston Chronicle in an email that the school was in &#8220;secure&#8221; mode while police investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not identified a suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old student at Westbury High School died Friday morning after a shooting near the campus, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-447478","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\/447478","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=447478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}