{"id":179991,"date":"2026-02-25T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179991\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:34:10","slug":"austin-police-investigate-fatal-shooting-of-joshua-baker-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179991\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin police investigate fatal shooting of Joshua Baker | North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin Police are investigating the fatal shooting of Joshua Baker, a 44-year-old man, who was found dead on February 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a call at 3:05 a.m. regarding a shooting at 1400 E. Rundberg Lane, where they discovered Baker, who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds, according to a press release from the Austin Police Department. Despite immediate lifesaving efforts, Baker was pronounced dead at 3:16 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives and crime scene specialists are involved in the investigation, which indicates that Baker was shot by an unknown suspect who fled the scene. This incident marks Austin&#8217;s 10th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department urges anyone with information to contact them 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. A reward of up to $1,000 may be available for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin Police are investigating the fatal shooting of Joshua Baker, a 44-year-old man, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,430],"class_list":{"0":"post-179991","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-north-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179991","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=179991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}