{"id":359355,"date":"2026-07-03T01:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359355\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:07:45","slug":"woman-arrested-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-man-found-in-se-austin-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359355\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested, charged with murder in death of man found in SE Austin home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 A woman has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-homicide-in-se-austin-06-24-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">death of a man found inside a Southeast Austin home<\/a> last week, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Rodriguez was arrested Thursday by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and charged with first-degree murder, according to police. The investigation determined that Michael Shelton was stabbed multiple times by Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton was <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-identify-man-found-stabbed-to-death-in-se-austin-home-suspect-still-at-large\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found dead<\/a> June 24 inside a home in the 5100 block of Lambs Lane, near Pleasant Valley Road and East William Cannon Drive. A friend who had not heard from him in about a week called 911 for a welfare check and entered the home during the call, discovering the body.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-identify-man-found-stabbed-to-death-in-se-austin-home-suspect-still-at-large\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Police identify man found stabbed to death in SE Austin home, suspect still at large<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers who responded found Shelton with obvious trauma to his body. He was pronounced dead at 11:29 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The case was investigated as Austin&#8217;s 31st homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A woman has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-359355","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\/359355","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=359355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}