{"id":390131,"date":"2026-07-29T04:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390131\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:17:23","slug":"man-struck-in-the-head-with-sledgehammer-suspect-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390131\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck in the head with sledgehammer; suspect in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/27fzob9s0mtt9i14.jpg\" alt=\"Burleson County airlift\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/27fzob9s0mtt9i14.jpg\" alt=\"Burleson County airlift\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/video\/fmc-66p44tmyg43js1zv\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burleson County airlift<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">A man was airlifted after being struck in the head by a sledgehammer in Burleson County. A suspect is in custody. (Courtesy: Burleson County Pct. 4 Constable&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BURLESON COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A man was airlifted after he was struck in the head by a sledgehammer on Monday in Burleson County.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Burleson County Pct 4 Constable&#8217;s Office posted a video to Facebook of the helicopter taking the man from the scene in Somerville, which is about 40 miles northeast of Giddings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The man suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The constable&#8217;s office was there assisting Somerville Police with a call on Avenue C involving an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The constable&#8217;s office did not share what led to the incident or any more specifics on the victim&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspect was only described as a male resident of Somerville and was booked into the Burleson County Jail.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FOX 7 Austin has reached out to the constable&#8217;s office for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from the Burleson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. This story was reported from Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burleson County airlift A man was airlifted after being struck in the head by a sledgehammer in Burleson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-390131","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-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390131","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=390131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}