{"id":478291,"date":"2026-10-27T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478291\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:18:11","slug":"man-accused-of-threatening-brother-with-gun-barricading-himself-inside-home-with-2-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478291\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of threatening brother with gun, barricading himself inside home with 2 children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly threatening his brother with a gun and barricading himself inside a home with two young children, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">At approximately 1 a.m., Alexander Uriel Valadez, 22, went to his brother\u2019s home located in the 1300 block of Cherry Lane and got into an argument with his brother, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Valadez allegedly pulled out a gun and threatened his brother, who left the home and called 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">When deputies arrived, they attempted to contact Valadez, but he refused to communicate with them, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Valadez then barricaded himself inside a house trailer with his two younger brothers, ages 6 and 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">A SWAT team and hostage negotiators responded to the scene. When negotiations stalled, SWAT officers entered the home because of the children\u2019s ages, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Valadez was taken into custody, and the two children were secured without injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Valadez was charged with aggravated assault on a family member.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793117891_415_kprc_breaking.webp\" width=\"234\" height=\"50\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf eUxjKG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly threatening his brother with a gun and barricading himself inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[161513,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-478291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-barricaded","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478291","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=478291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}