{"id":400960,"date":"2026-08-08T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400960\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:30:07","slug":"utpd-warns-west-campus-residents-about-person-reportedly-looking-through-windows-contacting-residents-the-daily-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400960\/","title":{"rendered":"UTPD warns West Campus residents about person reportedly looking through windows, contacting residents \u2013 The Daily Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin Police Department responded to five reports overnight Thursday about a person looking into windows and attempting to make contact with residents of buildings on San Gabriel and 21st streets, and San Gabriel and 23rd streets.<\/p>\n<p>According to a UT Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/utaustinpolice\/status\/2085841558067171765?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">safety advisory<\/a> for West Campus, a surveillance camera captured an image of the suspect who was \u201cpeering into windows.\u201d Photos and videos obtained by The Texan show police cars on 23rd Street. A witness said they saw police helicopters circling West Campus for around 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A University spokesperson confirmed the reports were being handled by APD and UTPD did not have anything to add on the situation. APD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the identity of the suspected person is encouraged to contact APD at 512-974-5230.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a reminder, please lock your doors and windows and remain vigilant,\u201d UTPD wrote in the safety advisory. \u201cIf you observe suspicious activity, call 911 immediately or report it through the LiveSafe app.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Austin Police Department responded to five reports overnight Thursday about a person looking into windows and attempting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-400960","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\/400960","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=400960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}