{"id":100022,"date":"2025-07-28T18:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100022\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:27:17","slug":"houston-shooting-john-byrd-charged-with-brothers-murder-on-park-row-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100022\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston shooting: John Byrd charged with brother&#8217;s murder on Park Row Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">John Byrd (Photo: Houston Police Department) <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; A Houston man is accused of shooting and killing his older brother after an argument on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>   Man charged with brother&#8217;s murder <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">According to Houston police, John Caya Byrd, 26, has been charged with murder. He is accused in the death of 34-year-old Carlos Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 15300 block of Park Row Drive around 12:45 p.m. Saturday and found Benjamin with multiple gunshot wounds. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police say they located Byrd, who told them that he had shot his brother after an argument. Byrd was taken into custody, interviewed by detectives and charged in the case.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/767E0C5E2271790D30B3718F1D6FA7B7-0-1753709857738.jpg\" alt=\"Houston news today: Girl, man shot; Humble mall bomb threat\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/1681506\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston news today: Girl, man shot; Humble mall bomb threat<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-57dc2675=\"\">Today&#8217;s Houston news for July 28, 2025 includes a shooting that injured a 12-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man, a bomb threat the prompted the evacuation of Deerbrook Mall in Humble, a Houston man convicted in a migrant smuggling case and a look at today&#8217;s weather forecast.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">It\u2019s unclear what the argument was about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article comes from the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article John Byrd (Photo: Houston Police Department) HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston man is accused of shooting and killing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6082,6386,4345,50,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-100022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114932275341889322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}