{"id":1050032,"date":"2026-09-08T02:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1050032\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T02:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:30:16","slug":"jhoan-gomez19-charged-with-murder-after-allegedly-shooting-stranger-during-argument-in-the-heights-hpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1050032\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhoan Gomez,19, charged with murder after allegedly shooting stranger during argument in the Heights, HPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A 19-year-old was officially charged with murder on Saturday after allegedly shooting at a driver in The Heights after an argument on Thursday, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \">ORIGINAL REPORT: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/houston-crime-driver-shot-during-argument-pedestrian-heights-hpd-says\/19785830\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Driver shot inside vehicle during fight with pedestrian in The Heights, HPD says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators say Jhoan Gomez was walking on Cottage Street when he was involved in an altercation with the driver of a Honda Civic. That driver was identified as 30-year-old Dreliene Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HPD said that they arrived at the scene and found the Civic crashed into a curb, with Washington inside of it with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene by firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Court records said there was an apparent altercation between Washington and Gomez, who was walking down the street. Officials said at one point, it is believed Gomez pulled out a weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said there is footage that shows what led up to the shooting. Records said the &#8220;two did not personally know each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators previously reported that Gomez allegedly fled on foot and was later arrested near the 400 block of Walton Street. He has since been charged, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He is currently being held in custody at the Harris County Jail without bail.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A 19-year-old was officially charged with murder on Saturday after allegedly shooting at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1050033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[420466,4345,358,3187],"class_list":["post-1050032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-420466","tag-houston","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117233072850407712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050032","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=1050032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}