{"id":124186,"date":"2026-01-15T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124186\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:28:07","slug":"austin-police-investigate-fatal-shooting-on-north-lamar-boulevard-central-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124186\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin police investigate fatal shooting on North Lamar Boulevard | Central Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin Police Department officers responded to a report of multiple gunshots on Sunday evening, January 11, 2026, at 9616 North Lamar Boulevard. Upon arrival, they found 23-year-old Cam Ron Perkins, who was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives and crime scene specialists processed the scene and interviewed witnesses, according to a press release from the Austin Police Department. The preliminary investigation revealed that Perkins had been shot, and the suspect fled in either a black Dodge Charger or a black Dodge Challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are urging anyone with information to contact the Austin Police Department at 512-974-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p>A reward of up to $1,000 may be available for information leading to an arrest. This incident marks Austin&#8217;s fourth homicide of 2026, stated the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin Police Department officers responded to a report of multiple gunshots on Sunday evening, January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2143,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-124186","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-central-texas","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124186","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=124186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}