{"id":69789,"date":"2025-07-17T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69789\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:44:23","slug":"man-shot-while-burying-family-pet-in-southeast-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69789\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot while burying family pet in southeast Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston police officers approach a home on Belgard Street early Thursday morning after a man was shot while burying a pet in a neighboring backyard. (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A man is recovering in the hospital after being shot while burying a pet in a backyard overnight, according to Houston police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. Thursday in the 7700 block of Belgard Street in southeast Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police say the victim, an adult male, was in the backyard with his younger brother burying their recently deceased guinea pig when a neighbor reportedly came outside and opened fire, striking the older brother in the torso.<\/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\">The victim was taken to a nearby hospital and is currently listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officers secured the scene and surrounded the neighboring residence where the shots were believed to have come from. Police say everyone inside the home complied and came out peacefully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Investigators are still working to determine what led to the shooting, though all parties are reportedly cooperating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorHolly Galvan Posey headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/2J32PDWT6X5BWU2SVME0EEE7B9\/\" title=\"View Holly Galvan Posey&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holly Galvan Posey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Holly joined the KPRC 2 digital team in March 2024, leveraging her eight years of expertise in blogging and digital content to share her passion for Houston. Outside of work, she enjoys exploring the city&#8217;s vibrant scenes, all while balancing her roles as a wife and mother to two toddlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston police officers approach a home on Belgard Street early Thursday morning after a man was shot while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4219,4345,14259,49205,101,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-69789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-hpd","11":"tag-se-houston","12":"tag-shooting","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114868405090470858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69789","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=69789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}