{"id":120494,"date":"2026-01-12T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120494\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:56:09","slug":"man-shot-killed-in-second-north-austin-homicide-in-less-than-12-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120494\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot, killed in second North Austin homicide in less than 12 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/t6rrnnqief2tjl6r.jpg\" alt=\"APD investigating fifth homicide of 2026\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A man was shot and killed in Austin&#8217;s fifth homicide of 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/news\/4th-homicide-2026-police-investigating-death-north-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">within 12 hours of another fatal shooting in the same patrol sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Austin Police Department says that just after 6 a.m. Jan. 12, Austin 911 received multiple calls about shots fired and someone with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Austin police, fire and EMS crews responded to the 9800 block of Middle Fiskville Road, just east of I-35.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Despite life-saving measures, the victim was pronounced dead just after 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">APD&#8217;s homicide and aggravated assault units are investigating and will canvass for video and talk with witnesses, said APD in a briefing Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The victim is identified as a white or Hispanic male, but APD did not provide an age range.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">While this homicide happened within 12 hours of a fatal shooting on N. Lamar in the same patrol sector, all available information points to the two being unrelated, said APD.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">If you have any information, you&#8217;re asked to call Crime Stoppers at 512-472-TIPS (512-472-8477) or the APD Homicide Unit Tip Line 512-974-TIPS (512-974-8477).<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/north-austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A man was shot and killed in Austin&#8217;s fifth homicide of 2026, within 12 hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,1466,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-120494","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-north-austin","14":"tag-travis-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120494","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=120494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}