{"id":478965,"date":"2025-12-30T01:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478965\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:45:11","slug":"child-caught-in-crossfire-during-southeast-houston-shooting-community-demands-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478965\/","title":{"rendered":"Child caught in crossfire during southeast Houston shooting, community demands action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 A 7-year-old girl is on the road to recovery after being shot during a fight at the Cullen Park apartment complex near Cullen and Wenda overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston police responded around midnight after gunfire broke out during an argument involving several people. Investigators are working to uncover who\u2019s responsible and why the young girl was caught in the middle.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Paramedics rushed the young girl to the hospital, where police said she is now recovering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Tiara Mathis, who lives nearby, said she heard gunshots recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m glad she\u2019s okay. I think there\u2019s a lot of senseless shooting going on,\u201d Mathis said. \u201cI heard a lot of gunshots the night before last. They just kept going off. I could tell it was from afar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Travis McGee, president of the Sunnyside Garden Bayou Estates Civic Association, said crime has been a persistent issue in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI\u2019ve lived here over 52 years. I was here when it was just a cow pasture,\u201d McGee said. \u201cThere have been several killings back there. More needs to be done. Proper inspections need to be done. There are a lot of people causing trouble in those apartments who shouldn\u2019t even be there. For kids to get caught in the crossfire, that\u2019s very disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">McGee called for curfews and better security measures, noting that violence in the apartments often spills over into the surrounding neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a bad neighborhood, just good and bad people coming in and out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He added that the civic association has invited apartment management to meetings in the past, but frequent changes in management have made it difficult to address the issues effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 A 7-year-old girl is on the road to recovery after being shot during a fight at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":478966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[718,4219,4345,425,50,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-478965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115805993311197565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478965","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=478965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}