{"id":404610,"date":"2026-08-12T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404610\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:24:07","slug":"suspect-in-custody-after-firing-at-officers-in-northeast-austin-apd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404610\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in custody after firing at officers in northeast Austin, APD says"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shelter-in-place was issued Wednesday for people living near Camino La Costa. <\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A suspect is now in custody after APD officers and the suspect exchanged gunfire in northeast Austin Wednesday morning, according to the Austin Police Department (APD).\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the APD, SWAT responded to the scene in the 800 block of Camino La Costa<\/a>, which is not far from ATX Storage. Police said officers responded after a 911 caller reported that someone was being held at gunpoint. People living near Camino La Costa were urged to shelter-in-place as APD arrived to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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APD said the suspect fired at officers upon their arrival, and officers returned fire. The suspect was in custody as of 9:50 a.m.. APD previously told KVUE that they believed the suspect was injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) said all northbound I-35 frontage road lanes just north of State Highway 290 were closed due to police activity near the scene, they have since been reopened as of 10:16 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0A media briefing is set to happen Wednesday, and no additional information is available at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shelter-in-place was issued Wednesday for people living near Camino La Costa. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A suspect is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-404610","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\/404610","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=404610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}