{"id":405585,"date":"2026-08-13T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405585\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:00:15","slug":"fort-worth-stolen-ambulance-involved-in-dps-chase-shooting-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405585\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth stolen ambulance involved in DPS chase, shooting in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Livestream\" <\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas – A person who stole a Fort Worth ambulance and evaded Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on a chase in Austin has died.<\/p>\n

The upper deck on I-35 will remain closed for some time as the investigation into the incident continues.<\/p>\n

What is happening on I-35 in Austin? \"Texas \"Texas <\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/p>\n

Texas DPS says that at around 6:30 a.m., troopers were notified about a stolen Fort Worth Fire\/EMS ambulance traveling southbound on I-35 in Williamson County.<\/p>\n

A DPS trooper located the ambulance and tried to conduct a traffic stop. Emergency lights were activated but officials say the driver refused to stop and began actively evading law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Officials say the driver continued southbound on I-35 and around Highway 290 area in Austin, the driver began intentionally ramming multiple vehicles.<\/p>\n

Troopers attempted a pit maneuver, but the ambulance continued to evade and ram vehicles as it got onto the I-35 upper deck.<\/p>\n

Officials say that’s when a trooper fired their gun at the driver.<\/p>\n

The driver died at the scene.<\/p>\n

What you can do:<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/p>\n

Officials say the upper deck of I-35 where the incident happened will be closed for some time as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n

People are asked to avoid the area and find alternate routes.<\/p>\n

The Source: Information from Austin Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n

Austin<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – A person who stole a Fort Worth ambulance and evaded Texas Department of Public Safety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-405585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405585","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=405585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}