{"id":371767,"date":"2026-07-13T23:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371767\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:06:14","slug":"man-arrested-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-shooting-of-roommate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371767\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested, charged with murder in fatal shooting of roommate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 Police have arrested a man in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/woman-dead-following-homicide-in-south-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatal shooting<\/a> of his roommate in South Austin over the weekend, the Austin Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Pyle, 42, was arrested at the scene and booked on a murder charge after officers say he allegedly shot Kristan Jeansonne, 45, during an altercation at their shared residence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/woman-dead-following-homicide-in-south-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Woman dead following homicide in South Austin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the 8300 block of Empress Boulevard around 4:54 a.m. Saturday after a caller reported a shooting. Arriving officers found Jeansonne unresponsive with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives and crime scene specialists responded to investigate. Pyle remained at the scene and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being investigated as Austin&#8217;s 34th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Austin police at 512-974-8477. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police have arrested a man in connection with the fatal shooting of his roommate in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-371767","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\/371767","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=371767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}