AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are investigating after a person died Monday night in southeast Austin, marking the city\u2019s 27th homicide this year, said police.<\/p>\n
The Austin Police Department said multiple calls came in around 10:47 p.m. Monday about a possible shooting or stabbing at the 2200 block of East Riverside Drive.<\/p>\n
The first officer arrived on the scene within 3 minutes of the initial call. The officer located an injured person in the parking lot of a strip mall. The officer performed CPR and applied a tourniquet. Austin-Travis County Emergency Services arrived on scene shortly after.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital where they died at 11:36 p.m. The identity of the victim has not been released.<\/p>\n
Police said there is no one in custody and there is no suspect description available at this time. APD said it is unclear how many people were involved. They are not releasing the identity of the victim or what type of weapon was used.<\/p>\n
Homicide detectives were at the scene investigating. Police said detectives were speaking with witnesses to get a better idea of what happened. This was an isolated incident.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact APD\u2019s Homicide Tip Line by calling (512) 974-8477 or by contacting Capital Area Crime Stoppers at (512) 472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are investigating after a person died Monday night in southeast Austin, marking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-338263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338263","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=338263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}