{"id":383598,"date":"2026-07-23T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383598\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:10:51","slug":"apd-identifies-victim-arrests-suspect-in-se-austin-homicide-off-montopolis-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383598\/","title":{"rendered":"APD identifies victim, arrests suspect in SE Austin homicide off Montopolis Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police have identified the victim in a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-homicide-in-se-austin-07-18-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deadly Southeast Austin shooting in the Montopolis neighborhood<\/a> and the suspect arrested on a murder charge over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Police Department, officers responded to multiple 911 calls reporting gunshots around 12:17 a.m. Saturday in the 3200 block of Montopolis Drive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-homicide-in-se-austin-07-18-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Man fatally shot at SE Austin apartment complex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found 22-year-old Tyris Rivers unresponsive with a gunshot wound. Rivers was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:28 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives determined Rivers was shot following a physical altercation at a residence, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, 29-year-old Jaquan Easley, remained at the scene and was arrested on a charge of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the case is being investigated as Austin&#8217;s 35th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Austin Police Department at 512-974-TIPS. Anonymous tips can also be submitted through <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Capital Area Crime Stoppers<\/a> at 512-472-8477 or online at <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AustinCrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police have identified the victim in a deadly Southeast Austin shooting in the Montopolis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-383598","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\/383598","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=383598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}