{"id":207711,"date":"2026-03-17T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207711\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:55:08","slug":"central-texas-family-members-shot-on-beach-at-family-vacation-in-port-aransas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207711\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Texas family members shot on beach at family vacation in Port Aransas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COPPERAS COVE, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; A handful of young adults from Central Texas were injured in a shooting over the weekend in Port Aransas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A San Antonio teen is behind bars after authorities say he sent gun shots into a crowd of people on the beach in Port Aransas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe had four family members and one family friend that were injured in this shooting,\u201d says Stacy Ross, a family member to the victims. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All five victims are homegrown Central Texans, ranging in age 20-30, calling Lampasas or Copperas Cove home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ross says they never expected their annual family vacation to end like this. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere\u2019s no words to describe the fear of what you\u2019re about to walk into,\u201d Ross tells KWTX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since then, they are now taking up a temporary residency in Port Aransas while everyone tries to recover, a journey that could take weeks for some of the victims. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe have two family members still in the ICU. One family member is no longer in the ICU and the other two were released,\u201d Ross explains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/helping-our-family-after-a-tragic-shooting?attribution_id=sl:dffaaa9f-8a57-49de-9498-4949c377f2b7&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1773678318&amp;utm_campaign=man_today_first_time_share&amp;utm_content=amp17_td-amp20_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=sms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/helping-our-family-after-a-tragic-shooting?attribution_id=sl:dffaaa9f-8a57-49de-9498-4949c377f2b7&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1773678318&amp;utm_campaign=man_today_first_time_share&amp;utm_content=amp17_td-amp20_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=sms\">GoFundMe<\/a> to help the family with hotel stays, food and hospital bills for the time being. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 17-year-old accused of being responsible for this is facing aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges and three others were put in custody for questioning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPPERAS COVE, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; A handful of young adults from Central Texas were injured in a shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81346,72497,14428,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-207711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-blackout","tag-candle","tag-power-outage","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207711","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=207711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}