{"id":70675,"date":"2025-07-17T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70675\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:24:12","slug":"houston-drive-by-shooting-at-bugs-bar-woman-killed-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70675\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston drive-by shooting at Bugs Bar: Woman killed identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; The 21-year-old woman killed in a drive-by shooting outside of Bugs Bar in southeast Houston has been identified.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">According to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science, the woman killed in the shooting was identified as Destini Butler.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Bugs Bar shooting kills 2, injures 15<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Two people were killed, and 15 others were injured in the shooting outside the bar.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The other person killed in the shooting was identified earlier this week as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/houston-barber-junebug-killed-bugs-bar-drive-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well-known Houston barber <\/a>Paul &#8220;Junebug&#8221; Stevenson. He worked at Something Serious Cuts, and, according to a friend, also owned the bar where he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2FBA6ECDA22F29D19F701F7F66DF3C4E.jpg\" alt=\"Well-known Houston-area barber killed in drive-by shooting\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>   Deadly drive-by shooting outside Houston bar <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Two people were killed and 15 others were injured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/houston-mass-drive-by-shooting-bugs-bar-dixie-drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drive-by shooting<\/a> outside a southeast Houston bar on Sunday night, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">According to police, a drive-by shooting occurred around 11:47 p.m. in the 6500 block of Dixie Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police say a group of people were standing outside of Bugs Bar when someone in a vehicle opened fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Seventeen people were injured. Police say one of them died at the scene and another died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police say the shooter or the shooters may have been in a black sedan.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police are still working to determine what led up to the shooting. It\u2019s unclear if there was more than one shooter.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/houston-mass-drive-by-shooting-bugs-bar-dixie-drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2 killed, 15 injured in drive-by shooting outside Houston bar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; The 21-year-old woman killed in a drive-by shooting outside of Bugs Bar in southeast Houston has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6082,6386,4345,50,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-70675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114870213989731351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70675","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=70675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}