Incident details
- Date of incident
- December 17, 2025
- Location
- Corpus Christi, Texas
- Targets
- Andrew Bishop (KRIS-TV)
- Assailant
- Private individual
- Was the journalist targeted?
- Yes
Assault
A KRIS-TV web article reporting on the assault of its news photographer Andrew Bishop, who was struck in the head while covering the homeless issue in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Dec. 17, 2025.
KRIS-TV videographer Andrew Bishop was hit in the back of the head by a woman while reporting on homeless issues in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Dec. 17, 2025.
Bishop, then a news producer at the station undergoing reporter training, said he set up a small tripod a few hundred yards away from a homeless encampment near City Hall when a woman began pointing and yelling at him.
“I just kept shooting,” he said. “And she walked up around the car, and she basically just came behind me, and she just punched me in the back of my head and neck.”
In a broadcast a few days later, reporter Jeydah Jenkins, who was with Bishop at the time, detailed how the city is tackling homelessness for a report on dine-and-dash incidents at an area restaurant.
“I saw firsthand how tense it can get,” she said. “While gathering video for this story near City Hall, a homeless person physically attacked my photographer, showing how unpredictable these situations can be for everyone involved.”
Although the broadcast did not identify the photographer, Bishop later told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he was the one assaulted. He said he was not injured and avoided further confrontation by packing up his equipment and later filing a police report.
Bishop said the assault highlighted safety concerns, as newsrooms face shrinking resources and increasingly rely on journalists to work alone in the field.
“With news, we’re losing resources by the day,” he said. “It’s riskier today as the industry moves more to one-man-show journalists.”
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