{"id":276135,"date":"2026-05-02T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:24:09","slug":"silver-alert-texas-dps-seeks-missing-man-last-seen-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276135\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Alert: Texas DPS seeks missing man last seen in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3544.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Officials are looking for a missing man last seen in Austin Thursday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Austin Silver Alert <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Lawrance Henson, 75, was last seen wearing a white and gray striped shirt and blue jeans, the release from Texas DPS says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Henson is described as a Black man standing at 5&#8217;8&#8243;, with white hair and black eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">He was last seen in the 5600 block of Berkman Drive around 6 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Any information can be given to the Austin Police Department at (512) 974-5000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from Texas DPS.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Officials are looking for a missing man last seen in Austin Thursday evening.\u00a0 Austin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,1046,2474,223,27,29,28,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-276135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austin","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276135","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=276135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}