Officers responded to a disturbance call received at 8:40 p.m. Friday, at 5012 East 7th Street, where the Cabana Club is located.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police Department spokesperson Aaron Townsend said in a Friday night briefing that a group of people, both inside and outside the club, engaged in an altercation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shots were heard, and officers responded to the scene a few minutes later.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officers located an adult male subject with “obvious trauma” to his body. Life-saving measures were attempted; however, those were unsuccessful, and the man was declared deceased at 9:02 p.m.<\/p>\n
Other individuals involved in the altercation self-transported to local area hospitals, Townsend said. He did not specify their injuries but said their\u00a0conditions are unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Townsend described the altercation as an isolated incident, and there was no longer any threat to the public. Police had not yet identified a suspect at the time of the briefing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This is being investigated as Austin’s 20th homicide of the year,” Townsend said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation found the incident occurred in the club’s back room, he said. No weapon had been recovered.<\/p>\n
Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators were called, and they took information from those at the scene. EMS also arrived on the scene, Townsend said in the Friday briefing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cabana Club did not shut down immediately, but did start shutting down operations as authorities spoke with people on scene, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was not immediately known whether the club’s owner had been contacted after the incident occurred. \u00a0<\/p>\n
If anyone has any information about the incident, officers are asking those to call the Crime Stoppers line at 512-247-TIPS or the homicide tip line at 512-477-3588.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers responded to a disturbance call received at 8:40 p.m. Friday, at 5012 East 7th Street, where the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-245802","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\/245802","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=245802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}