AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are searching for a suspect who stabbed two people at Butler Metro Park in south Austin early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Police initially responded to First Urgent Care at 2020 E. Riverside Dr. at around 2:19 a.m. Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
A patient at the clinic called the police to report that he had been stabbed by a man with a knife at a city park earlier, and had been dropped off at the clinic with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Later on, officers responded to Dell Seton Medical Center at 1500 Red River St. to reports of a man who had arrived at the hospital with non-life-threatening stab wounds. <\/p>\n
The victim told police that the stabbing had occurred earlier at Butler Park at 1000 Barton Springs Rd, and that the suspect was a young male.<\/p>\n
ALSO | APD bans personal watercraft on Lake Austin over July 4 holiday weekend<\/a><\/p>\n APD investigated and discovered evidence of the assault at Butler Park. Investigators believe the two stabbing incidents are related, and that they both originated from the same disturbance involving both subjects.<\/p>\n No arrests have been made, APD says. The investigation is active and ongoing, with police interviewing witnesses and gathering video footage and additional information.<\/p>\n Those who have information on the incident are asked to contact APD’s Aggravated Assault Unit at 512-974-5245. Tips may be submitted anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by visiting austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are searching for a suspect who stabbed two people at Butler Metro Park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-358952","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\/358952","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=358952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}