{"id":63155,"date":"2025-11-24T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63155\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:37:08","slug":"hedwig-village-officer-used-license-plate-reader-to-locate-suspects-accused-of-shooting-hpd-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63155\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedwig Village officer used license plate reader to locate suspects accused of shooting HPD officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HOUSTON, Texas  \u2013 A Hedwig Village police officer is being praised for jumping into action to help the Houston Police Department find the suspects who shot one of their officers during a road rage incident on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston police officer Jake Parker was headed into work when he was shot on Gennser and Hempstead in a suspect road rage incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston Police Chief Now Diaz is praising the work of a Hedwig Village officer, who he said helped track down the suspects after the shooting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After shooting Officer Parker, investigators said 23-year-old Homero Reyes fled the scene along with two other suspects who were inside his vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">When Houston police released details of the suspect\u2019s vehicle, they said the Hedwig Village Officer entered the vehicle\u2019s description into a license plate reader and was able to locate the vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Instead of immediately pulling over the vehicle, the officer trailed the suspects until more officers arrived. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston police were able to deploy several units and their helicopter and stopped the suspects in Missouri City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Reyes, along with two others, was arrested. Reyes has since been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A judge set his bond at $60,000. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas \u2013 A Hedwig Village police officer is being praised for jumping into action to help the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[294,33110,56,58,57,33111],"class_list":["post-63155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime","tag-hedwig-village","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-ois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63155","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=63155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}