{"id":297705,"date":"2026-05-18T03:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297705\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T03:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:35:10","slug":"3-in-custody-in-random-shootings-in-austin-texas-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297705\/","title":{"rendered":"3 in custody in random shootings in Austin, Texas: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three suspects are in custody in connection with a string of apparently random shootings in Austin, Texas, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least 10 shootings were reported late Saturday and on Sunday, resulting in four people shot, according to the Austin Police Department. None of the shootings were fatal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two suspects &#8212; a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old &#8212; were apprehended at a traffic stop Sunday afternoon and were taken to a juvenile detention center, police said. A third suspect fled from the car, and after several hours of searching, the suspect was apprehended by the nearby Manor Police Department, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/3-dead-injured-after-vehicle-strikes-cars-pedestrians\/story?id=133045877\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:3 dead, others injured after vehicle strikes cars and pedestrians in Oakland, California, officials say;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;3 dead, others injured after vehicle strikes cars and pedestrians in Oakland, California, officials say&quot;}\" class=\"link \">3 dead, others injured after vehicle strikes cars and pedestrians in Oakland, California, officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There&#8217;s no known motive for the &#8220;senseless&#8221; shootings, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shootings targeted apartment buildings, houses and firehouses, Davis said. In one incident on Sunday morning, a man walking his dog was shot in the back, Davis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspects allegedly stole at least four cars, according to police, and the 17-year-old is also accused of stealing a gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three suspects are in custody in connection with a string of apparently random shootings in Austin, Texas, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,4761,8070,108356,3346,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-297705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austin","tag-austin-police-department","tag-lisa-davis","tag-manor-police-department","tag-shootings","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297705","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=297705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}