{"id":352858,"date":"2026-06-27T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352858\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:17:08","slug":"austins-colony-shooting-michael-scott-crawford-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352858\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin\u2019s Colony shooting: Michael Scott Crawford charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/travis-county-sheriffs-office.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A 47-year-old Austin man has been arrested and charged with murder after a fatal shooting early Saturday morning in the Austin\u2019s Colony neighborhood, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>   Travis County murder <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies responded to a 911 call at 3:29 a.m. in the 15100 block of Retha Pass after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots and screaming coming from a nearby home.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Upon arrival, deputies found a man in his 40s with gunshot wounds. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspected shooter, identified as Michael Scott Crawford, remained at the scene and was detained by deputies at 3:36 a.m., according to Kristen Dark, senior public information officer for the sheriff&#8217;s office. Crawford has since been formally charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said the individuals involved knew each other.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The identity of the deceased is being withheld pending positive identification by the Travis County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office and the notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A 47-year-old Austin man has been arrested and charged with murder after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-352858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352858","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=352858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}