{"id":123741,"date":"2026-01-15T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123741\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:52:08","slug":"man-shot-killed-in-north-austin-identified-apd-asking-for-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123741\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot, killed in North Austin identified; APD asking for tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The identity of the man shot and killed in North Austin has been released by police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">This is the Austin Police Department&#8217;s fifth homicide investigation of 2026.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police said on Jan. 12, around 5:27 a.m., officers responded to a shots fired call in the 1100 block of\u00a0S. Meadows Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">When officers arrived, they didn&#8217;t see anyone who had been involved in the shooting. Detectives also responded to collect evidence, which included shell casings.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/q5mi47m04jrgewkj.jpg\" alt=\"APD investigates 2 murders within 24 hours\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">At 6:08 a.m., a 911 call was received reporting a person who was found unconscious and not breathing at 9806 Middle Fiskville Road. Police said this was the same victim of the earlier call on S. Meadows Drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The victim died shortly after. He was later identified as Seferino Hernandez-Perez.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">If anyone has any tips or possible evidence, you can submit them by scanning the QR code below.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/qr-260120233.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Austin&#8217;s 5th homicide investigation of 2026 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the Austin Police Department at 512-974-TIPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">You may submit your tip anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or calling 512-472-8477. A reward of up to $1,000 may be available for any information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <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><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":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The identity of the man shot and killed in North Austin has been released by&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-123741","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\/123741","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=123741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123741\/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=123741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}