{"id":509624,"date":"2026-01-12T00:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509624\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:14:15","slug":"houston-officer-fatally-shoots-armed-suspect-in-kashmere-gardens-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509624\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston officer fatally shoots &#8216;armed suspect&#8217; in Kashmere Gardens, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; A man has died after being shot by a Houston officer in Kashmere Gardens, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston: Kashmere Gardens officer-involved shooting <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wayne.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police say calls started coming in shortly before 2:30 p.m. about a suspicious person with a weapon on Wayne Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to Assistant HPD Chief James Skelton, the suspect was threatening family members with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers responded to the calls, saw the suspect, made a perimeter around him, and allegedly called for him to drop the weapon. The suspect instead raised his weapon, according to police, leading one officer to shoot him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The suspect was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ddeq29zl0szkj47c.jpg\" alt=\"Suspect shot by Houston police in Kashmere Gardens | Full police report\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No one involved has been identified at this time. The suspect is said to be 29 years old, and the officer who shot him is a three-year veteran with HPD&#8217;s Northeast Division.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Other details about the incident leading to the shooting are not available at this time.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The shooting is being investigated by the Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, HPD&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit, and HPD&#8217;s Internal Affairs Unit.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Bodycam footage of the incident is said to be released in the next 30 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/kashmere-gardens\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kashmere Gardens<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A man has died after being shot by a Houston officer in Kashmere Gardens, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":509625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6082,4345,210418,50,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-509624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-kashmere-gardens","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115879245640633932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509624","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=509624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}