{"id":365608,"date":"2025-11-08T23:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365608\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:42:21","slug":"harris-co-deputies-arrest-2-in-assault-on-homeless-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365608\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Co. deputies arrest 2 in assault on homeless man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/martinezfields.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>HARRIS COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said two men were arrested after allegedly assaulting a homeless man Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Xavier Martinez, 20, and 27-year-old Jace Fields were both charged with Class A assault.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Deputies said a man believed to be homeless was retrieving his clothing from a dumpster behind a business in the 13600 block of SH-249 when the men drove up to him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Martinez allegedly got out of the vehicle and pepper sprayed the man and took photos of him while he was disoriented, deputies said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, Fields recorded the assault and encouraged Martinez before they left the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The video was uploaded to Fields&#8217; Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Both men were booked into the Harris County Jail.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Deputies did not say why the men pepper sprayed the other man.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The victim&#8217;s condition was not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article comes from Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said two men were arrested after allegedly assaulting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365609,"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-365608","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\/115516731985634472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365608","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=365608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}