{"id":221677,"date":"2026-03-26T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221677\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:48:07","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-in-connection-with-east-austin-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221677\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder in connection with East Austin shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clemente Garcia, 37, was arrested Tuesday after a man was shot and later died near the Little Walnut Creek Greenbelt. <\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man has been charged with murder several days after a deadly shooting in East Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an update on Thursday, the Austin Police Department (APD) said 37-year-old Clemente Garcia was arrested and charged with first-degree Murder after a 47-year-old was pronounced dead near the Little Walnut Creek Greenbelt on Sunday.<\/p>\n

According to initial reports, law enforcement responded to a call about a possible shooting or stabbing<\/a> shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at 4700 Loyola Lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once on scene, police said they found a man who appeared to have been shot. He was pronounced dead and later identified as 47-year-old Nicholas Zarate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

APD said the suspect, later identified as Garcia, fled the scene after the shooting. Garcia was arrested on Tuesday on initial felony warrants unrelated to Sunday’s homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is Austin’s 16th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clemente Garcia, 37, was arrested Tuesday after a man was shot and later died near the Little Walnut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-221677","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\/221677","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=221677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}