{"id":217607,"date":"2026-03-24T04:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217607\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:44:10","slug":"austin-police-identify-victim-of-east-austin-homicide-near-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217607\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin police identify victim of East Austin homicide near Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Police Department has identified the victim of a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apd-investigating-homicide-in-e-austin-close-to-mueller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">homicide that occurred Sunday evening in East Austin near the Mueller area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a report of a disturbance and possible shooting at 4700 Loyola Lane around 5:07 p.m. After arriving at the scene at approximately 5:10 p.m., they found a man lying on the ground with injuries described as \u201cincompatible with life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/spring-pine-fire-in-bastrop-state-park-burns-40-acres-currently-40-contained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Spring Pine fire in Bastrop State Park burns 46 acres, currently 75% contained<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The victim was later identified as Nicholas Zarate, 47, and was pronounced dead at 5:28 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives and crime scene specialists are investigating. Officials said Zarate was shot by a suspect who fled on foot. No security camera footage is currently available, and police have not released any information about potential suspects.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Austin\u2019s 16th homicide of 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact the Austin Police at 512-974-TIPS or submit tips anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at austincrimestoppers.org or by calling 512-472-8477. A reward of up to $1,000 may be offered for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Police Department has identified the victim of a homicide that occurred Sunday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-217607","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217607","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=217607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}