{"id":624828,"date":"2026-05-05T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/624828\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:56:08","slug":"katy-father-dies-after-teen-son-puts-him-in-chokehold-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/624828\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy father dies after teen son puts him in chokehold, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man died after deputies found his teen son gripping him in a chokehold in a Katy neighborhood, according to the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies encountered the father and son after responding to a family disturbance call on the 21400 block of Sagrantino Court near Clay and North Mason roads, according to a social media post by Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. The man was transported to the hospital and pronounced dead, the post states.<\/p>\n<p>His son might be 15 years old, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not say what time the incident happened, but the office shared the post shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday. They have not announced any charges in the case or specified a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Crime scene investigators and the sheriff&#8217;s office&#8217;s homicide unit were responding to the scene, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died after deputies found his teen son gripping him in a chokehold in a Katy neighborhood,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-624828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624828","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=624828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}