{"id":371584,"date":"2026-07-13T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371584\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:50:12","slug":"homicide-investigation-at-8303-empress-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371584\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide Investigation at 8303 Empress Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Case:\u00a0 26-1920314<\/p>\n<p>Date:\u00a0 Saturday, July 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Time:\u00a0 4:54 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Location:\u00a0 8303 Empress Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>Victim (Deceased):\u00a0 Kristan Jeansonne, White female, 6\/10\/1980<\/p>\n<p>Suspect (Arrested): Donald Pyle, White male, 42 years old<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Police - Web_Pyle, Donald (42 yoa) 26-1920314.jpg\" width=\"300\" alt=\"Picture of suspect\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, July 11, 2026, at 4:54 a.m., Austin Police (APD) officers responded to a report of a shooting at 8303 Empress Blvd. A caller reported that a person had been shot at this residence. When officers arrived, they found the victim, Kristan Jeansonne, unresponsive with a gunshot wound. The victim was pronounced deceased at the scene at 5:11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the Homicide Unit, and the Austin Forensic Science Crime Specialists, responded to the crime scene. The preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, Donald Pyle, shot his roommate, Kristan Jeansonne, during an altercation at their residence. Donald Pyle remained at the scene and was arrested for murder.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Austin Police at 512-974-TIPS. You may submit your tip anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by visiting<a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> austincrimestoppers.org <\/a>or call 512-472-8477.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This case is being investigated as Austin&#8217;s 34th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Case:\u00a0 26-1920314 Date:\u00a0 Saturday, July 11, 2026 Time:\u00a0 4:54 a.m. Location:\u00a0 8303 Empress Blvd. Victim (Deceased):\u00a0 Kristan Jeansonne,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-371584","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\/371584","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=371584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}