{"id":348873,"date":"2026-06-24T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348873\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:23:10","slug":"missing-82-year-old-austin-man-found-silver-alert-discontinued-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348873\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 82-year-old Austin man found, Silver Alert discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 UPDATE: <\/p>\n<p>John Alexander has been found, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Silver Alert has been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>ORIGINAL STORY: <\/p>\n<p>Austin police are searching for an 82-year-old man with a cognitive impairment who was reported missing early Wednesday morning, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>John Alexander was last seen at 3:45 a.m. at the 5800 block of Steep Cactus Trail in southwest Austin. He was wearing a gray long-sleeve shirt, jeans and tennis shoes at the time of his disappearance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apd-investigating-overnight-homicide-on-s-lamar-blvd-fourth-in-less-than-two-weeks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | APD investigating overnight homicide on S Lamar Blvd, fourth in less than two weeks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexander is described as a white male who is 5&#8217;9&#8243; tall and weighs around 160 lbs. <\/p>\n<p>A Silver Alert has been issued. Authorities said his disappearance poses a credible threat to his health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on Alexander&#8217;s whereabouts is asked to contact the Austin Police Department at 512-974-5000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 UPDATE: John Alexander has been found, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-348873","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\/348873","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=348873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}