{"id":368454,"date":"2026-07-10T17:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368454\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:15:22","slug":"northeast-austin-july-4-nightclub-shooting-victims-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368454\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Austin July 4 nightclub shooting victims identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Dark, a sheriff\u2019s office spokesperson, said deputies responded to the 9700 block of Reservoir Court just before 4 a.m. Sunday after a 911 caller reported hearing gunfire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/crime\/article\/austin-area-shootings-fourth-of-july-22333041.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Multiple shots were fired<\/a> after an altercation outside the nightclub, where Dark said nearly 400 people were either inside or in the parking lot at the time of the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hornsby was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:22 a.m. Williamson was taken to a hospital for treatment, where she was pronounced dead at 5:14 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said its investigation indicates Hornsby and Williamson knew each other and that there is no ongoing threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains\u00a0ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information about the incident is asked to call the sheriff&#8217;s office tipline at 512-854-1444 or Crime Stoppers at 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Staff writer Dante Motley contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristen Dark, a sheriff\u2019s office spokesperson, said deputies responded to the 9700 block of Reservoir Court just before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-368454","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\/368454","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=368454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}