{"id":217674,"date":"2026-03-24T05:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217674\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:47:07","slug":"austin-police-investigating-sunday-homicide-on-loyola-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217674\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Police Investigating Sunday Homicide on Loyola Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin Police Department is investigating a Sunday shooting on Loyola Ln. that resulted in Austin&#8217;s 16th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austintexas.gov\/police\/news\/homicide-investigation-4700-loyola-lane?mc_cid=49386eecc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press release<\/a>, officers responded to a shoot\/stab urgent call at 4700 Loyola Ln. at 5:03 p.m. The caller reported a disturbance and possible gunfire. Officers arrived on the scene and located a man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was later identified as 47-year-old Nicholas Zarate, a Hispanic male. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Homicide detectives and crime scene specialists responded to the scene and interviewed witnesses, who said Zarate was shot and killed by a suspect who fled the area on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information about the shooting is asked to contact police at 512-974-TIPS. <\/p>\n<p>You can also submit anonymous tips through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a> or calling 512-472-8477. There is a reward of up to $1,000 available for information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the month, the Travis County District Attorney&#8217;s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/texas\/downtownaustin\/travis-county-da-declines-file-charges-west-fifth-street-killing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">determined<\/a> that the case being investigated as Austin&#8217;s 15th homicide of the year would not result in charges. That&#8217;s because the investigation revealed the incident, which involved a security guard at a downtown bank, was an act of self-defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Austin Police Department is investigating a Sunday shooting on Loyola Ln. that resulted in Austin&#8217;s 16th homicide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-217674","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\/217674","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=217674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}