{"id":297517,"date":"2026-05-17T23:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297517\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:33:13","slug":"austin-random-shootings-leave-4-injured-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297517\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin random shootings leave 4 injured, mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10 random weekend shootings leave 4 injured in Austin, Texas, mayor says<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ap.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"AP logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 3:35 PM PDT May 17, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo people were in custody and a third suspect was being sought following at least 10 random weekend shootings in Austin, Texas, including at fire stations, that left four people injured, city officials said Sunday.The city had ordered residents of a large part of the southern area of Texas&#8217; capital city to shelter in place Sunday while the search continued. With two suspects in custody, the order was later lifted, the Austin Police Department said in a post on X.The shootings occurred Saturday night and Sunday morning, two of them at fire stations, leaving one person with serious injuries and three others with minor ones, Police Chief Lisa Davis said.Davis said the suspects appeared to be stealing vehicles as they traveled.\u201cWe don\u2019t have any specific motive that has been identified. In fact, these actions appear to be random,\u201d Mayor Kirk Watson said. \u201cIt appears that as part of this, people are changing vehicles.\u201dDavis said at least four vehicles were used by the suspects.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Two people were in custody and a third suspect was being sought following at least 10 random weekend shootings in Austin, Texas, including at fire stations, that left four people injured, city officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The city had ordered residents of a large part of the southern area of Texas&#8217; capital city to shelter in place Sunday while the search continued. With two suspects in custody, the order was later lifted, the Austin Police Department said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>The shootings occurred Saturday night and Sunday morning, two of them at fire stations, leaving one person with serious injuries and three others with minor ones, Police Chief Lisa Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>Davis said the suspects appeared to be stealing vehicles as they traveled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have any specific motive that has been identified. In fact, these actions appear to be random,\u201d Mayor Kirk Watson said. \u201cIt appears that as part of this, people are changing vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis said at least four vehicles were used by the suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10 random weekend shootings leave 4 injured in Austin, Texas, mayor says Updated: 3:35 PM PDT May 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,88503,108278,108279,108280,134,133,108281,4921,36205,108282,108292,108283,108284,92269,108262,108285,992,294,16357,5603,100,21712,108286,108294,48,662,27377,108287,80728,108288,7977,108268,108293,108289,52304,101,108290,27,52588,6433,108291,108295],"class_list":["post-297517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-breaking-news","tag-austin-crime-spree","tag-austin-emergency-response","tag-austin-fire-station-shooting","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-news-today","tag-austin-police","tag-austin-police-investigation","tag-austin-public-safety","tag-austin-random-shooting","tag-austin-residents-alert","tag-austin-shelter-in-place","tag-austin-shootings","tag-austin-texas-shootings","tag-austin-violence-investigation","tag-city","tag-crime","tag-fire-station","tag-gun-violence","tag-investigation","tag-jsnd","tag-kirk-watson-mayor","tag-large-part","tag-law","tag-mayor","tag-mayor-kirk-watson","tag-multiple-shootings-austin","tag-place","tag-random-shootings-austin","tag-resident","tag-shelter-in-place-order","tag-southern-area","tag-southern-austin-lockdown","tag-sunday","tag-suspect","tag-suspects-sought-austin","tag-texas","tag-texas-crime-news","tag-true-crime","tag-weekend-shootings-texas","tag-wjcl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297517","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=297517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}