{"id":21082,"date":"2025-10-25T19:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21082\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:36:23","slug":"1-arrested-1-injured-in-shooting-at-austin-central-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21082\/","title":{"rendered":"1 arrested, 1 injured in shooting at Austin Central Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8a40e072-50d05abb-police-tape-police-lights-2.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Austin police said one person was injured, and a suspect is in custody after a shooting at Austin Central Library Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police said they got a call just after noon to 710 West Cesar Chavez St. where the caller said they heard a gunshot.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officers located a victim inside the library, and they were taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The victim&#8217;s injuries were described as serious, but not considered life-threatening during a police update on the shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police said the suspect fled the scene and was later located in South Austin and taken into custody around 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The library was evacuated because of the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The city&#8217;s notification system sent out a shelter in place alert, but that alert has since been lifted.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">No information on the suspect has been released.<\/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\/downtown\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Austin police said one person was injured, and a suspect is in custody after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,993,223,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-21082","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-publicsafety","12":"tag-downtown","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-travis-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21082","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=21082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}