{"id":386882,"date":"2026-07-26T07:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386882\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:23:12","slug":"rainey-street-austin-shooting-reports-reports-of-shots-fired-outside-paseo-chilling-videos-show-huge-police-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386882\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainey Street, Austin shooting reports: Reports of shots fired outside Paseo; chilling videos show huge police presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">A shooting reportedly took place outside Paseo, a luxury apartment complex, at 80 Rainey Street in Austin, Texas on Sunday, July 26. Videos on Facebook showed massive police presence.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo-1606022831434-91293aebf25a_1785049392836_1785049398390_de67db27-c293-4e7b-8069-6f918bc50ce6.jp.jpeg\" alt=\"A shooting reportedly took place at Rainey Street in Austin, Texas. Image for representational purposes. (Unsplash)\" title=\"A shooting reportedly took place at Rainey Street in Austin, Texas. Image for representational purposes. (Unsplash)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>A shooting reportedly took place at Rainey Street in Austin, Texas. Image for representational purposes. (Unsplash)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">\u201cPolice respond to reported shooting near Rainey Street in Downtown Austin. A chaotic scene unfolded just moments ago outside Paseo on Rainey Street, where multiple gunshots were reportedly heard. Witnesses described people running from the area as first responders rushed to the scene,\u201d one wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">They added \u201cPolice have responded, and helicopters are now overhead as the area is being secured. At this time, details remain limited, and officials have not yet released confirmed information about the number of people injured or what led to the incident. If you\u2019re in the Downtown Austin or Rainey Street area, avoid the scene and follow directions from law enforcement while emergency crews work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Another person shared a video putting out similar information about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>What Austin Police Department said<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Austin Police Department has not officially commented on the incident yet. However, they did <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Austin_Police\/status\/2081265686576353680?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"backlink\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"note\">note<\/a> that police are investigating a homicide \u2018near the 400 block of Dawson Road.\u2019 This is about 2.2 miles away from Rainey Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">At present it is not known if the two incidents are linked. There are no reports of injuries amid the reported shooting at Rainey Street. No details about a possible suspect has been announced yet either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooting reportedly took place outside Paseo, a luxury apartment complex, at 80 Rainey Street in Austin, Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,136360,136359,136358,136357,136361],"class_list":["post-386882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-paseo-rainey-st-austin-texas-shooting","tag-paseo-rainey-street-shooting","tag-rainey-street-austin-shooting","tag-rainey-street-shooting","tag-rainey-street-shooting-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386882","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=386882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}