{"id":114599,"date":"2025-08-27T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114599\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:48:10","slug":"off-duty-metro-police-sergeant-seriously-injured-while-assisting-in-funeral-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114599\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty METRO police sergeant seriously injured while assisting in funeral escort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An off-duty METRO police officer is recovering in the hospital after crashing his motorcycle while assisting in a funeral escort on Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SUGGESTED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2025\/08\/27\/fbi-conducting-raid-at-joshua-media-ministries-campus-in-nw-houston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2025\/08\/27\/fbi-conducting-raid-at-joshua-media-ministries-campus-in-nw-houston\/\">Ministry leaders arrested, including self-proclaimed \u2018Apostle,\u2019 as FBI raids NW Houston campus<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">It\u2019s unclear what led up to the crash, as of this writing, but <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">Harris County<\/a> Sheriff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Ed_Gonzalez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Ed_Gonzalez\/\">Ed Gonzalez<\/a> confirmed the accident on X, saying it happened on Fellows Road at Cullen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The officer, who has only been described as a Sergeant with the METRO Police Department, was rushed to a hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">At last check, the sergeant was in serious, but stable condition and is expected to survive his injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">No additional information has been shared, as of this writing, but KPRC 2 will continue to update this story as details are released. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty METRO police officer is recovering in the hospital after crashing his motorcycle while assisting in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,47080,19093,15441,24491,451,7095,11882,29306,74604,35716,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-114599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-car-accident","tag-car-crash","tag-crash","tag-harris-county","tag-headlines","tag-houston","tag-metro-police-department","tag-motorcycle","tag-motorcycle-accident","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}