{"id":21653,"date":"2025-10-26T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21653\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:41:09","slug":"1-injured-suspect-arrested-in-austin-library-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21653\/","title":{"rendered":"1 injured, suspect arrested in Austin library shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">AUSTIN \u2014 Someone was shot inside a downtown library in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/austin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/austin\/\">Austin<\/a> on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\">police<\/a> said, prompting emergency vehicles and personnel to converge on the building and a shelter-in-place alert to be issued. A suspect was later taken into custody in another part of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The shooting victim was taken to a local hospital, where the person was in serious but stable condition Saturday afternoon, the Austin Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Shortly after noon, Austin\u2019s 911 system received reports of a shooting incident at the Austin Central Library, Assistant Police Chief Lee Rogers said in a media briefing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A suspect left the scene before the arrival of officers, but the person was later located and placed into custody in the city\u2019s South Austin neighborhood about 1:25 p.m., police said. Rogers said he had no more information on the suspect or where specifically in the library the shooting occurred. Police said the library was evacuated, and the shelter-in-place was lifted later.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cThis appears to be an isolated incident, not an active shooter situation,\u201d Rogers said, adding that the incident involved one suspect and one victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 Someone was shot inside a downtown library in Austin on Saturday, police said, prompting emergency vehicles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[732,132,134,133,294,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-21653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21653","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=21653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}