{"id":33132,"date":"2025-11-03T14:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/33132\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:10:25","slug":"woman-found-dead-behind-north-austin-business-identified-suspect-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/33132\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead behind North Austin business identified; suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/my-project-13.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Enrique Gomez-Urbina (Austin Police Department)<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Austin Police Department has identified the woman found dead behind a North Austin business earlier this week. A suspect has also been arrested.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/news\/homicide-north-austin-police-investigating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">APD says the incident happened in the 8200 block of Research Boulevard service road northbound.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It wasn\u2019t until around 7:40 a.m. on Oct. 6 when police got a call that someone coming into work at the auto shop found a woman lying in the woods behind the shop. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:53 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AACD0D5D558FA0A7086CF985B6A7F1AE.jpg\" alt=\"Woman found dead behind North Austin business\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On Oct. 8, she was positively identified by the medical examiner as 43-year-old Mary Gonzales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">That same day, APD says that a first-degree murder warrant was issued for 21-year-old Enrique Gomez-Urbina, a Mexican national. He was located and arrested on Masterson Pass by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the U.S. Marshals, 48-year-old Jesus Llamas-Yanez, a Mexican national, was an associate of Gomez-Urbina. He fled from officers on the scene but was later detained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officials said Llama-Yanez, an undocumented migrant, was wanted by federal authorities in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on a weapons charge. He is now awaiting extradition back to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p> Witness nearby reports hearing &#8220;something like a pop&#8221; <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Fannie Hayes-Barnicle said she was camping out with her husband and dog in the field next to the German Auto Shop off Research Boulevard when it happened.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I heard something like a pop. I thought I was first hearing a gunshot and then me and my husband, I said, well, maybe it\u2019s firecrackers, sounded closer to that, so we all went back to sleep. I think my husband saw the car come through. That was after we had had dinner, so that was like late, between 2 and 3 o&#8217;clock in the morning, but there was no activity, no fighting, no evidence of struggle, anything like that,&#8221; Hayes-Barnicle said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">This is being investigated as Austin&#8217;s 46th homicide of 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the Austin Police Department at 512-974-TIPS. You may submit your tip anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">clicking here<\/a> or calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/north-austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Enrique Gomez-Urbina (Austin Police Department) AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Austin Police Department has identified the woman found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,1466,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-33132","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","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-north-austin","14":"tag-travis-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132","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=33132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}