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AUSTIN, Texas – A man was arrested for murder for shooting and killing his roommate in South Austin.<\/p>\n
This is the Austin Police Department’s 34th homicide of the year.<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
Police said on July 11, around 4:54 a.m., officers responded to a shooting at 8303 Empress Blvd. A 911 caller said a person had been shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found a victim with a gunshot wound. The victim was pronounced dead. She was later identified as Kristan Jeansonne.<\/p>\n
An investigation revealed that the suspect, 42-year-old Donald Pyle, shot Jeansonne, his roommate, during an altercation at the home.<\/p>\n
Pyle remained at the scene and was arrested for murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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 austincrimestoppers.org <\/a>or call 512-472-8477<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Information from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>South Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas – A man was arrested for murder for shooting and killing his roommate in South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,4522,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-374838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-south-austin","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374838","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=374838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}