{"id":26760,"date":"2022-08-29T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=26760"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:21:19","slug":"a-man-accused-of-setting-a-rental-property-on-fire-and-killing-three-men-in-houston-was-later-gunned-down-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/26760","title":{"rendered":"A man accused of setting a rental property on fire and killing three men in Houston, was later gunned down by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Houston: Houston Police Chief Troy Finner informed that among the four killed was the suspect, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Suspect killed by police after intentionally setting fire to rental property<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference, the police chief said that at least four people were killed and two others sustained injuries on Sunday after a man set fire to a building and then shot at people fleeing in Houston.<br \/>\nThe suspect was later killed by a Houston police officer.<br \/>\nCNN reported quoting the Houston Police Chief Troy Finner that just after 1 a.m., the city\u2019s police and fire departments received calls about a fire and shooting at a house used as a rental facility, Finner said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple agencies, including the Houston Police Department and the Houston Fire Department, responded to multiple reports at a home that was used as a multi-rental property at the 8000 block of Dunlap Street near Bissonnet Street at around 1 a.m, Chief Troy Finner said in a news conference.<br \/>\nFirefighters arrived first but had to take cover when the gunman opened fire, although it was not clear if he was firing at them.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after that, police officers got to the scene and found the shooter in a parking lot across the street from the house. An officer shot and killed<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Finner, victims were all men, and range in age from 40 to 60.<br \/>\n&#8220;This suspect, unfortunately, and very sadly, and very evilly, set fire to several residents,&#8221; Mr Finner said during the press conference as quoted by CNN.<br \/>\nLast week, one person was killed and six others sustained injuries in an apparent targeted shooting in the US state of Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston: Houston Police Chief Troy Finner informed that among the four killed was the suspect, Suspect killed by police after intentionally setting fire to rental property Addressing a press conference, the police chief said that at least four people were killed and two others sustained injuries on Sunday after a man set fire to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26764,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760\/revisions\/26764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}