{"id":262855,"date":"2026-04-23T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262855\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:18:09","slug":"police-investigating-homicide-thursday-morning-in-southeast-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262855\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating homicide Thursday morning in southeast Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement responded to the homicide along the 1500 block of Royal Crest Drive.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are investigating a homicide Thursday morning in southeast Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Police Department (APD), law enforcement responded just before 9:30 a.m. to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Austin_Police\/status\/2047321249076953234?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">1500 block of Royal Crest Drive<\/a>, not far from the Element Austin apartments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s currently unclear what led up to this incident or how many people were involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are expected to provide more details during a media briefing at around 10:45 a.m. Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No additional information is available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement responded to the homicide along the 1500 block of Royal Crest Drive. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-262855","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\/262855","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=262855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}