{"id":172544,"date":"2025-08-24T20:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172544\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:20:30","slug":"update-suspect-arrested-charged-in-fatal-shooting-at-4020-synott-road-city-of-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172544\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Suspect Arrested, Charged in Fatal Shooting at 4020 Synott Road \u2013 City of Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charges have been filed against a suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of a man at 4020 Synott Road about 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday (Aug. 19).<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Demarcus Johnson, 34, is charged with murder in the 185th State District Court. A booking photo of Johnson is attached to this news release.<\/p>\n<p>The victim is identified as\u00a0William Brantley, 32.<\/p>\n<p>HPD Homicide Division Detectives\u00a0S. Chettry and\u00a0H. Martinez reported:<\/p>\n<p>HPD patrol officers responded to a shooting call at the above address and found a male suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot. Paramedics transported him to an area hospital where he was pronounced deceased. He was lated identified as Mr. Brantley.<\/p>\n<p>Officers learned Brantley was involved in a\u00a0physical altercation with an unknown male. The suspect shot him and fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation identified Johnson as the suspect. He was in custody in the Harris County Jail on unrelated charges and was subsequently charged in this case on Thursday (Aug. 21).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ee524248-b4cd-016a-7490-3cd515fcf3ad.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" data-file-id=\"2771003\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ee524248-b4cd-016a-7490-3cd515fcf3ad.png\"\/><br \/>Demarcus Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Update: SOA\/JKS\u00a0 \u00a0 8-22-25<br \/>SOA\/ECR\u00a0 \u00a0 8-20-25<br \/>Inc. #108595625<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charges have been filed against a suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of a man at 4020 Synott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-172544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115085602102005243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172544","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=172544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}