{"id":173739,"date":"2026-02-21T02:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173739\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:15:07","slug":"1-dead-in-shooting-involving-off-duty-austin-police-officer-near-pflugerville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173739\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in shooting involving off-duty Austin police officer near Pflugerville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident occurred in the 1700 block of Crystal Bend Dr.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A person is dead after an off-duty Austin Police Department officer shot and killed him near Pflugerville Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the incident occurred in the 1700 block of Crystal Bend Dr. Police say an armed suspect walked into a business and may have intended to harm someone. The off-duty officer then shot the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the shooting is underway.<\/p>\n<p>No other information is currently available.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident occurred in the 1700 block of Crystal Bend Dr. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A person is dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-173739","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173739","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=173739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}