{"id":109779,"date":"2026-01-03T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109779\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:16:09","slug":"minor-arrested-in-double-fatal-shooting-in-williamson-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109779\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor arrested in double-fatal shooting in Williamson County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-926719206-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Accident or crime scene cordon tape, police line do not cross. via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A juvenile has been arrested Saturday after an early morning double-homicide near Round Rock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The situation ended after officials successfully negotiated a barricade situation with the minor, they say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Williamson County double-homicide  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Williamson County authorities got the shooting call around 2 a.m. from the 8900 block of Brushy Gate Cove, outside the Round Rock city limits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Williamson County sheriff&#8217;s deputies found two men dead of gunshot wounds at the scene. The suspect was barricaded inside a bedroom in the home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Williamson County SWAT and crisis negotiators responded, and the suspect peacefully surrendered around 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The incident is believed to have been isolated, and officials say there is no ongoing threat to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The identity of the minor suspect has not been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The victims were not identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The motive behind the shooting has not been commented on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article came from the Williamson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/williamson-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williamson County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Accident or crime scene cordon tape, police line do not cross. via Getty Images WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,216,393,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-109779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-williamson-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}