A man assaulted a woman with a weapon Monday morning at a home on Ferguson Lane, according to law enforcement. <\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man is facing charges after a reported assault that led to a SWAT standoff Monday morning at a home in northeast Austin, police said.<\/p>\n
According to the Austin Police Department (APD), law enforcement responded to a call at around 6:30 a.m. about a possible assault in the 1700 block of Ferguson Lane.<\/p>\n
Once on scene, police said they learned that a man assaulted a woman with a weapon. APD said the suspect and victim knew each other leading up to the incident.<\/p>\n
In a media briefing Monday, police said the man refused to leave the house, which prompted the SWAT call.<\/p>\n
The suspect, later identified as 51-year-old Raymond Guy Roberts, was later taken into custody after APD’s SWAT team responded to the scene and set up a perimeter.<\/p>\n
Police said Roberts was taken to a local hospital and remains in APD custody pending arraignment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident remains under investigation by APD.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man assaulted a woman with a weapon Monday morning at a home on Ferguson Lane, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-401338","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\/401338","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=401338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}