{"id":297656,"date":"2026-05-18T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:26:12","slug":"4-injured-in-at-least-10-random-shootings-in-texas-including-at-fire-stations-officials-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297656\/","title":{"rendered":"4 injured in at least 10 random shootings in Texas, including at fire stations, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUSTIN, Texas. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/2026\/05\/17\/four-shot-austin-random-attacks-police-search-two-suspects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/2026\/05\/17\/four-shot-austin-random-attacks-police-search-two-suspects\/\">KWTX<\/a>\/Gray News) &#8211; Multiple people were injured in least 10 random shootings in Texas, according to officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The suspects have carried out up to 10 attacks in Austin, including at fire stations, injuring as many as four people, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Austin_Police\/status\/2056114081732477393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Austin_Police\/status\/2056114081732477393\">according to Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One person sustained serious injuries, and the other three have minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The shootings appear to be random, with no specific motive or pattern in locations, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Austin police search for suspect in random shootings\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779071172_65_6O6IXDOWO5FHVCZOVJWVVU6UM4.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Austin police search for suspect in random shootings(Austin PD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said two suspects are in custody; however, one remains at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police reported the suspects have been using different vehicles, possibly a black or dark blue 2012 Hyundai Sonata with a broken right passenger window and a white Kia Optima.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities are urging the community to remain vigilant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone who sees anything suspicious or knows the whereabouts of the suspects or suspect vehicles should not approach and should call 911 immediately, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas. (KWTX\/Gray News) &#8211; Multiple people were injured in least 10 random shootings in Texas, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[108319,132,134,133,294,108315,108316,108314,672,108317,108318],"class_list":["post-297656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-10-random-shootings","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime","tag-crime-austin","tag-crime-austin-texas","tag-crime-shootings","tag-police","tag-random-shootings-texas","tag-shootings-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297656","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=297656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}