{"id":254429,"date":"2025-09-25T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254429\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:27:10","slug":"pedicab-drivers-attacked-by-robbery-suspects-in-downtown-houston-hpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254429\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedicab drivers attacked by robbery suspects in downtown Houston, HPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men, including one in a brightly-colored shirt, were arguing with the victim about the price after she dropped them off.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Police are working to identify three robbery suspects who police say attacked a couple of pedicab drivers in downtown Houston.<\/p>\n<p>It happened after one of the victims dropped the three men off around midnight on Friday, September 5. She had picked them up from <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/PLCLgXdUt1Mv2opC7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Rusk Street near Chartres Street<\/a>, just east of the 59\/Eastex Freeway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the pedicab driver told them how much they owed her, they began arguing. Another pedicab driver tried to intervene, and that&#8217;s when both victims were assaulted and punched several times, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hpdrobbery\/status\/1971194934419128757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Houston Police Department Robbery Division.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspects left without paying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HPD released video of one of them wearing a bright-colored shirt, dark shorts and blue sneakers. He had a revolver in his waistband, according to HPD.<\/p>\n<p>If you recognize him or have any other information about this case, please call Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crime-stoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">crime-stoppers.org<\/a> or on their mobile app. Tipsters must contact Crime Stoppers directly to be considered for a reward of up to $5,000. All tipsters remain anonymous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crime-stoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0<strong>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/crime\/houston-pedicab-driver-assaulted-robbed-rusk-street-surveillance\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>newstips@khou.com<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0and include the best way to reach you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men, including one in a brightly-colored shirt, were arguing with the victim about the price after she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":254430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-254429","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\/115266823518718237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254429","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=254429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}