{"id":501901,"date":"2026-01-08T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501901\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:23:15","slug":"police-searching-for-man-and-woman-after-deadly-christmas-day-shooting-in-southwest-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501901\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for man and woman after deadly Christmas Day shooting in southwest Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Video shows a woman try to get in the victim’s SUV, then a man open fire.<\/p>\n

HOUSTON \u2014 Houston police have released surveillance video of two suspects wanted in the fatal shooting of a man early Christmas Day<\/a> on the city\u2019s southwest side.<\/p>\n

The shooting occurred about 1:05 a.m. Dec. 25 along the West Sam Houston Parkway near Bellaire.<\/p>\n

The victim was identified as Desmond Butler, 25.<\/p>\n

According to the Houston Police Department, Butler drove his gray Honda Pilot into a gas station parking lot, where a black, older-model GMC Acadia was parked at one of the pumps.<\/p>\n

As Butler pulled into the parking lot and drove past the GMC, a woman could be seen getting out of the GMC and chased Butler\u2019s vehicle, trying to open the rear passenger door. At the same time, a man got out of the GMC and fired a gun at Butler\u2019s vehicle as it left the parking lot.<\/p>\n

Police said Butler tried to head north on the West Sam Houston Parkway feeder road but was struck and crashed into a pole in an adjacent parking lot. The suspects then got back into their vehicle and took off northbound on the feeder road.<\/p>\n

Butler was taken to a hospital, where he was declared dead.<\/p>\n

Police are asking for the public’s help to find the suspects.<\/p>\n


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Anyone with information about the identities of the suspects or the case is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n

Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<\/strong>newstips@khou.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video shows a woman try to get in the victim’s SUV, then a man open fire. HOUSTON \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":501902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-501901","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\/115860878469718785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501901","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=501901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}