{"id":387177,"date":"2026-07-26T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387177\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:18:07","slug":"one-person-dead-after-homicide-near-downtown-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387177\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dead after homicide near Downtown Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 One person was killed near Downtown Austin Sunday following reports of a disturbance. <\/p>\n<p>Officers responded just after midnight Sunday to 401 Dawson Road for reports of a disturbance and a call that a male had appeared to have been injured following an altercation. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses coming out of Butler Park reportedly called officials after they saw the victim stumbling near the area. They then attempted to assist the victim until officials arrived. <\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived on scene and an adult male with what they described as &#8220;obvious signs of trauma to his body.&#8221; Life-saving measures were attempted, but the victim was pronounced deceased. <\/p>\n<p>ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/one-person-injured-in-downtown-austin-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">One person injured in Downtown Austin shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers stated that they believe only two people were involved including the deceased victim. Homicide detectives are investigating and witnesses are speaking to officials. <\/p>\n<p>There is no reported danger to the public, and one person of interest was speaking with detectives. <\/p>\n<p>The incident is being investigated as Austin&#8217;s 37th homicide of 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 One person was killed near Downtown Austin Sunday following reports of a disturbance. Officers responded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-387177","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\/387177","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=387177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}