{"id":65726,"date":"2025-07-14T20:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65726\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:04:18","slug":"drive-by-shooting-at-houston-nightclub-kills-2-injures-7-others-police-say-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65726\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-by shooting at Houston nightclub kills 2, injures 7 others, police say \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lights-on-a-police-car-michael-fortsch-unsplash.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-477997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lights-on-a-police-car-michael-fortsch-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"flashing lights on a police car\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1634\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a>A drive-by shooting at a Houston nightclub killed two people and injured several others late Sunday night, according to the Houston Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred at around 11:45 p.m. Sunday at the Bugs Bar Night Club located at 6502 Dixie Rd. in Southeast Houston, according to police. Officers said one person was pronounced dead at the scene and another was transported to a hospital, where they later died.<\/p>\n<p>Among the seven other people who were injured in the shooting, some were transported to local hospitals while others were treated at the scene, police said. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HPD Asst. Chief Rodriguez provides information on multiple persons shot at 6500 Dixie Drive <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OqGKErvhi3\">https:\/\/t.co\/OqGKErvhi3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Houston Police (@houstonpolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houstonpolice\/status\/1944652917606343121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>HPD Assistant Chief Adrian Rodriguez said officers believe a four-door gray or silver sedan was involved in the shooting. The department is asking residents to come forward if they have any information about the shooting by calling HPD\u2019s homicide division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-8477. <\/p>\n<p>This is the second shooting to occur at the nightclub this year, according to police. On March 16, a 21-year-old was shot and killed in the Bugs Bar parking lot during an altercation between several men. <\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was shot outside the bar by someone in a silver four-door sedan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/police\/nr\/2025\/mar\/nr031725-2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>An HPD spokesperson told Houston Public Media on Monday that both shootings are under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drive-by shooting at a Houston nightclub killed two people and injured several others late Sunday night, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[46688,4219,46689,4345,46690,46691,46692,46693,425,50,7207,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-65726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bugs-bar-night-club","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-drive-by-shooting","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-nightclubs","13":"tag-houston-police-departament","14":"tag-houston-shooting","15":"tag-houston-shooting-deaths","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-police","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114853384272462814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65726","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=65726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}