{"id":178599,"date":"2026-03-29T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:19:08","slug":"nysp-investigating-rouses-point-death-one-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178599\/","title":{"rendered":"NYSP investigating Rouses Point death, one in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNew York State Police have a man in custody after an apparent homicide in Rouses Point.Police were called to the Anchorage Motel just before 2 a.m. on Saturday and found 57-year-old Tyrone Biggs dead in his apartment with apparent stab wounds. Thirty-one-year-old Austin Lapier was taken into custody. Police believe Lapier killed Biggs sometime the prior evening. Biggs&#8217; body was taken to Glens Falls, where an autopsy is scheduled for Sunday. Lapier has been charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. He is being held without bail. Lapier will appear before a judge on Thursday. According to Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wiley, Lapier and Biggs were neighbors at the motel. The investigation is ongoing.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tROUSES POINT, N.Y. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police have a man in custody after an apparent homicide in Rouses Point.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the Anchorage Motel just before 2 a.m. on Saturday and found 57-year-old Tyrone Biggs dead in his apartment with apparent stab wounds. <\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one-year-old Austin Lapier was taken into custody. Police believe Lapier killed Biggs sometime the prior evening. <\/p>\n<p>Biggs&#8217; body was taken to Glens Falls, where an autopsy is scheduled for Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Lapier has been charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. He is being held without bail. Lapier will appear before a judge on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>According to Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wiley, Lapier and Biggs were neighbors at the motel. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Police have a man in custody after an apparent homicide in Rouses Point.Police were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3665,72189,11524,72196,72193,72194,8640,303,26549,61420,1027,259,9,41883,11,72190,10,49,51,50,747,3905,104,72195,29587,72191,72192,3105],"class_list":["post-178599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-a-m","tag-anchorage-motel","tag-apartment","tag-apparent-stab-wound","tag-austin-lapier","tag-biggs","tag-body","tag-crime","tag-criminal-possession","tag-custody","tag-homicide","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-crime","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-homicide","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-nysp","tag-police","tag-prior-evening","tag-rouses-point","tag-rouses-point-crime","tag-rouses-points","tag-saturday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}