{"id":460393,"date":"2026-10-08T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460393\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:16:07","slug":"houston-man-allegedly-bit-off-father-in-laws-finger-during-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460393\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston man allegedly bit off father-in-law\u2019s finger during altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston man was arrested after allegedly biting off a piece of his father-in-law&#8217;s finger during an altercation, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Huy Nguyen is charged with injury to elderly with serious bodily injury out of Fort Bend County and his bond was set at $150,000 for the incident.<\/p>\n<p> Man accused of biting off finegrtip  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">According to court records, sheriff&#8217;s deputies were called to the family&#8217;s home in the Southwest Houston area near Mission Bend on Aug. 26.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Nguyen told the deputy he called authorities after he had gotten into an argument with his wife, documents state. Nguyen&#8217;s father-in-law was upset about what he had said to his daughter.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The wife came out of the home and told deputies Nguyen bit off the tip of her father&#8217;s middle finger on his left hand.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Deputies reported they went into the home and saw the father-in-law was missing the tip of his finger, which was bleeding. A plastic zip tie was being used as a tourniquet on the father-in-law&#8217;s finger. The fingertip was found, and the family was told to preserve it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The father-in-law was taken to the hospital by EMS first responders who arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The wife claimed she got into an argument with Nguyen after he started yelling at her for feeding her child chicken after 10 p.m., documents report. Nguyen&#8217;s father-in-law intervened, telling Nguyen to &#8220;shut up&#8221; and stop yelling.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Nguyen would later tell police through translation by his nephew that he grabbed his father-in-law&#8217;s arm and bit his fingertip off before leaving the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was gathered from Fort Bend County District Clerk court documents.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/fort-bend-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Bend County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston man was arrested after allegedly biting off a piece of his father-in-law&#8217;s finger during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[441,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-460393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-fort-bend-county","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\/460393","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=460393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}