{"id":396821,"date":"2026-08-03T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396821\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:30:12","slug":"transcript-details-911-call-before-17-year-old-was-shot-by-austin-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396821\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript details 911 call before 17-year-old was shot by Austin police"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police released the 911 call that preceded the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Anthoneil Williams II<\/a> in Northeast Austin last month.<\/p>\n

Austin 911 received the call at 3:51 a.m. on July 24 reporting that a young person was possibly armed in a parking lot in the 10100 block of Baden Lane. Investigators later determined that the call came from Williams’ own phone.<\/p>\n

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Although CBS Austin has chosen not to post the audio due to the nature of the incident, a transcript of the call, released by police, is below:<\/p>\n

Dispatcher: Austin 911. Do you need police, fire, EMS or mental health services?
Caller: Police.
Dispatcher: To what address?
Caller: 10110 Baden Lane.
Dispatcher: 10110… And what’s the\u2014
Caller: Baden Lane. B-A-D-E-N Lane.
Dispatcher: 10110 Baden Lane. This is a house, apartment, or duplex?
Caller: It’s a parking lot.
Dispatcher: Okay. All right. What’s going on?
Caller: There seems- I’m looking out my window. There seems to be a kid, and it looks like he has a gun. I’m not sure, but he keeps on- I’m not sure, but he keeps on messing with his waistband. And I seen something in his hands. It looked like a firearm, but I’m not sure.
Dispatcher: When you say kid, how old?
Caller: I’m not sure. He just looks very young.
Dispatcher: So like a teenager?
Caller: Yes, sir.
Dispatcher: Okay. Is he, like, brandishing it? Or does he just happen to have it?
Caller: Brandishing it, I would say. Yeah. I’d say brandishing it.
Dispatcher: Towards someone? Or is he just by himself?
Caller: By himself.
Dispatcher: Okay.<\/p>\n

The call then disconnected, according to police, and could not be reconnected. Police radio traffic released alongside the call captured officers being dispatched to the report of a “gun hot shot” at the address with the “complainant stating he sees a kid with possibly a gun.”<\/p>\n

They worked to pin down the exact location using a what3words location marker, and officers eventually confirmed they had “eyes” on a subject matching the description at the community pool and park near Baden Lane and Arborside Drive. <\/p>\n

Moments later, radio traffic captured officers reporting shots fired.<\/p>\n

Police said officers repeatedly told Williams to show his hands after arriving at the park around 4 a.m. Police released slowed-down surveillance video<\/a> and said Williams appears to lift his shirt, reach toward his waistband, then extend both hands in front of him as if pointing a weapon at officers, prompting three officers to open fire.<\/p>\n

Investigators have said the incident may have been “suicide by police.” The three officers involved remain on paid administrative leave, per department protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police released the 911 call that preceded the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Anthoneil Williams II…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-396821","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\/396821","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=396821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}