{"id":362280,"date":"2026-07-06T02:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362280\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T02:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:12:10","slug":"1-dead-1-injured-in-shooting-at-northeast-austin-strip-mall-police-call-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362280\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 1 injured in shooting at Northeast Austin strip mall police call hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A deadly shooting at a Northeast Austin shopping center late Saturday left one person dead and another injured, rattling neighbors who returned home to police cars and a helicopter circling overhead.<\/p>\n<p>Austin police said the shooting happened around 11:45 Saturday night in the parking lot of the Otro Pedo Sports Bar on East Braker Lane. Two victims were taken to the hospital. One of them died, and the other was in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Antwon Lockhart, who lives in the area, said he was coming home from the Fourth of July fireworks show downtown with his wife and two kids when he encountered the scene near his home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ain&#8217;t never seen nothing like it since I&#8217;ve been here in Austin, Texas. So it was crazy,\u201d Lockhart said.<\/p>\n<p>He said police vehicles covered East Braker Lane and a helicopter was over the area searching for the suspect. Lockhart said his children were frightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was crazy. Like my kids were scared, they were scared,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lockhart said he worried about the situation escalating as he walked with his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, oh my God, hope nobody don&#8217;t get, nobody don&#8217;t pull the gun out. Hope nobody don&#8217;t get shot while I&#8217;m walking with my kids home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/one-dead-one-injured-in-shooting-at-northeast-austin-bar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">One dead, one injured in shooting in parking lot outside of Northeast Austin bar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Austin police have described the strip mall as a crime <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/violent-crime-hot-spot-has-austin-police-launching-a-new-crime-fighting-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hotspot<\/a>. According to APD\u2019s crime statistics map, last updated at the end of June, at least 22 crimes have been reported there since Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Police have also launched a crime-fighting strategy at the shopping center, partnering with other local, state and federal agencies. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said the effort will focus on identifying who is driving the crime and why.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s going to be looking at who&#8217;s causing the problems, where, why is it comfortable for the criminals to be here, and us upsetting that,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>After the shooting, Otro Pedo Sports Bar released a statement saying the shooting did not happen at the bar. The business said it happened at an abandoned Jack in the Box in the same lot. APD was contacted to confirm that claim, but there was no response. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A deadly shooting at a Northeast Austin shopping center late Saturday left one person dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-362280","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\/362280","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=362280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}