{"id":21043,"date":"2025-10-25T18:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21043\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:48:06","slug":"at-least-1-injured-in-austin-library-critical-incident-police-in-texas-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21043\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 1 injured in Austin library &#8216;critical incident,&#8217; police in Texas say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">One person was taken to the hospital after a &#8220;critical incident&#8221; Saturday afternoon at Austin Central Library in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Austin Police Department (APD) confirmed on X there is at least one victim, though the nature of the incident was not immediately provided.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who was described as a &#8220;thin Black male&#8221; wearing a gray hoodie, green shorts, black pants, black shoes, carrying two black bags, remains outstanding, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you see this person, call 911 immediately,&#8221; officials wrote in the post. &#8220;DO NOT approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Fire Department confirmed to Fox News Digital they are at the scene with EMS.<\/p>\n<p>APD did not immediately respond to additional inquiries from Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Koch is a Fox News Digital journalist who covers breaking news, with a focus on high-impact events that shape national conversation.<\/p>\n<p>She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One person was taken to the hospital after a &#8220;critical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,294,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-21043","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-crime","12":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043","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=21043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}