{"id":180885,"date":"2026-02-26T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180885\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:29:12","slug":"man-killed-in-northeast-austin-homicide-identified-suspect-still-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180885\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in northeast Austin homicide identified; suspect still at-large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The man shot and killed in Saturday&#8217;s northeast Austin homicide has been identified.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/man-dead-after-shooting-in-northeast-austin-no-suspect-in-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Man dead after shooting in northeast Austin; no suspect in custody<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday at around 3:05 a.m., Austin police officers responded to a shooting at 1400 E. Rundberg Ln., where they found 44-year-old Joshua Baker near a dumpster suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The officers immediately initiated life-saving measures, APD says. Despite the officers&#8217; efforts, Baker was pronounced dead at the scene at around 3:16 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary investigation indicates that Baker was shot and killed by an unknown suspect who then fled the area, APD says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/amber-alert-continues-for-missing-girl-last-seen-in-north-austin-suspect-vehicle-located\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | AMBER Alert continues for missing girl last seen in north Austin; suspect, vehicle located<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those who may have information on this incident are asked to call the Austin Police Department at 512-974-TIPS. Tips may also be submitted anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online <\/a>or at 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A reward of up to $1,000 may be available for information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The man shot and killed in Saturday&#8217;s northeast Austin homicide has been identified. PREVIOUS COVERAGE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-180885","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\/180885","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=180885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}