{"id":462291,"date":"2026-10-10T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462291\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T16:48:07","slug":"houston-homeowners-son-shoots-suspected-intruder-after-finding-man-in-backyard-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462291\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston homeowner&#8217;s son shoots suspected intruder after finding man in backyard, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 A man was hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a homeowner\u2019s son opened fire on him during an encounter in a north Houston backyard late Friday, according to Houston police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Officers responded to a shooting call around 11:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, in the 300 block of Glenburnie Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Police said the homeowners first heard a noise and noticed a van outside their residence that they considered suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The homeowners then checked their backyard and found a man who approached one of them, according to police. The homeowner\u2019s adult son came outside a short time later and fired shots toward the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The man suffered two gunshot wounds to his lower extremities. He was taken to a nearby hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Police described both the man who was shot and the homeowner\u2019s son as being in their early 20s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Investigators said there were no outstanding suspects, but officers were checking the license plate of a vehicle involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Police have not released additional details about what led to the shooting or whether any charges will be filed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 A man was hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a homeowner\u2019s son opened fire on him during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13786,56,58,57,157869,66,223,95,157868],"class_list":["post-462291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-home-invasion","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-intruder-shot","tag-local","tag-news","tag-shooting","tag-suspect-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462291","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=462291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}