{"id":78385,"date":"2025-07-20T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78385\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:10:25","slug":"houston-police-sergeant-suspected-shooter-injured-in-overnight-exchange-of-gunfire-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78385\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police sergeant, suspected shooter injured in overnight exchange of gunfire \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 Houston Police Department sergeant and a person suspected of shooting him are both recovering in the hospital after an exchange of gunfire Thursday night in southeast Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report of a suspicious person with a weapon near the intersection of Mykawa and Almeda Genoa roads at around 11:35 p.m. Thursday, according to the police department, which said two sergeants responded to the scene and were immediately met with gunfire. <\/p>\n<p>One of the sergeants, identified by Houston Mayor John Whitmire as 27-year police department veteran Paul George, was struck by gunfire. The suspected shooter was subsequently hit by return fire from the officers, HPD Assistant Chief Adrian Rodriguez said during a late-night news conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HPD Provides update on Officer Shot at 10500 Mykawa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7WT73Ro7Du\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/7WT73Ro7Du<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Houston Police (@houstonpolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houstonpolice\/status\/1946108293380022686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aid was rendered to both the sergeant and the suspected shooter, and Rodriguez said both were recovering in the hospital as of early Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am grateful that the injuries sustained by Houston Police Sergeant Paul George in last night&#8217;s shooting are non-life-threatening,\u201d Whitmire said in a Friday morning statement. \u201cThis incident reminds us of the daily dangers our officers face in service to our city. Their courage and dedication do not go unnoticed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez added that the person suspected of shooting the officer, whose name has not been released, \u201cis alert and is listed in stable condition as well.\u201d<\/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 Houston Police Department sergeant and a person suspected of shooting him are both recovering in the hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[10882,4219,7729,42423,4345,17617,5429,46692,425,50,35785,7207,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-78385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-city-of-houston","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-gunfire","11":"tag-guns","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-mayor-john-whitmire","14":"tag-houston-police-department","15":"tag-houston-shooting","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-officer-involved-shooting","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114886437984316337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78385","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=78385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78385\/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=78385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}