{"id":392984,"date":"2026-07-31T03:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392984\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:51:18","slug":"police-arrest-19-year-old-after-shooting-at-south-austin-motel-injures-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392984\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 19-year-old after shooting at South Austin motel injures two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 Police arrested a 19-year-old man early Thursday after two people were shot at a South Austin motel Wednesday night, according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a report of shots fired at the Super 8 Motel at 4200 S I-35 Frontage Rd. at about 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Officers found two victims with gunshot wounds and performed life-saving measures before Austin-Travis County EMS took them to a hospital, according to police. One victim was in critical condition, and the other suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/city-memo-austin-budget-staff-recommend-54-million-cut-to-social-service-contracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | City memo: Austin budget staff recommend $5.4 million cut to social service contracts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers searched the area but did not immediately locate a suspect, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>A separate 911 call later reported shots fired near the 1100 block of W. Live Oak Street, police said. Multiple patrol officers and APD&#8217;s Air Support unit responded and located the suspect, identified as Elijah Jorge Zuniga, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Zuniga was arrested and booked into the Travis County Jail, police said. He faces two charges of aggravated assault involving the reckless discharge of a firearm from a motor vehicle, one charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and one charge of evading arrest with a motor vehicle, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police arrested a 19-year-old man early Thursday after two people were shot at a South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-392984","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\/392984","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=392984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}