{"id":185654,"date":"2026-03-01T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185654\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:07:08","slug":"police-investigating-deadly-shooting-in-northeast-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185654\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating deadly shooting in northeast Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/43706303-POLICE-LIGHTS.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Police are investigating after a man was found shot to death in a homeless encampment in northeast Austin Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Austin police said the incident happened in the 900 block of East Braker Lane.<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Police spokesperson Jeremy Fisher said officers were called to the location around 8:10 a.m. Saturday, where they located the man with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Fisher said the shooting was believed to have happened overnight.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">The victim&#8217;s identity has not yet been released. He was described as a man in his 50s.<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the Austin Police homicide division or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">The shooting is being worked as Austin&#8217;s 11th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/northeast-austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northeast Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Police are investigating after a man was found shot to death in a homeless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,33934,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-185654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-northeast-austin","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185654","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=185654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}