{"id":406745,"date":"2026-08-14T20:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406745\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:16:52","slug":"police-release-bodycam-video-911-call-in-ne-austin-shootout-with-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406745\/","title":{"rendered":"Police release bodycam video, 911 call in NE Austin shootout with suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Newly released body camera footage shows the moment a police officer exchanged gunfire<\/a> with a man accused of pistol-whipping a stranger in northeast Austin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Austin Police Department released the video on Friday, along with dash camera footage, 911 call audio and police radio traffic the shooting near 824 Camino La Costa. <\/p>\n

Officer Stephen Abbott, a 12-year veteran of the department, exchanged gunfire with 36-year-old Gregory Lane, who now faces charges of attempted capital murder and aggravated assault, police said.<\/p>\n

According to a preliminary timeline released by police, officers responded at 8:23 a.m. Wednesday after a man reported he had been punched, robbed at gunpoint and pistol-whipped by a stranger. The victim fled to a nearby Burger King and gave officers a description of the man.<\/p>\n

In the 911 call, the victim can be heard telling a dispatcher he had pulled over near a motel when a man approached his car window and told him to leave.<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘Okay, sounds good.’ And during that, he got really upset, and punched me in the face,” the caller said. <\/p>\n

“He held a gun to my head,” the caller said, adding that the man then “hit [him] with the butt of the pistol in [his] temple.”<\/p>\n

PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Suspect in custody after shootout with police in NE Austin<\/a><\/p>\n

Four minutes after arriving, the officer spotted a man matching that description in the parking lot of the Centro Studio Homes apartment complex, police said. When the officer ordered him to drop his weapon, the man, later identified as Lane, ducked behind a parked car and opened fire. The officer took cover behind his patrol vehicle and returned fire before Lane fled into an apartment inside the complex, according to police.<\/p>\n

SWAT officers, crisis negotiators and members of the department’s Violent Crimes Task Force converged on the scene. Lane told negotiators he was alone and asked to speak with a federal agent, police said. After about 90 minutes, he surrendered and was taken into custody without further incident at 9:45 a.m.<\/p>\n

“APD’s negotiators used crisis communication technique, patience and de-escalation to establish dialog with the suspect and ultimately brought this situation to a peaceful resolution without anyone else being injured,” Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said. <\/p>\n

Detectives later recovered a firearm from Lane’s apartment along with shell casings and vehicles struck by gunfire. The original victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Neither Lane nor the officer was hurt in the exchange of gunfire.<\/p>\n

Investigators have not yet determined how many total shots were fired or whether Lane was under the influence at the time, Davis said.<\/p>\n

“We do know that the suspect fired the first round,” Davis said.<\/p>\n

Abbott has been placed on administrative leave, which is standard protocol following an officer-involved shooting.<\/p>\n

The department said it is conducting simultaneous criminal and administrative investigations into the shooting, with the latter overseen by Austin Police Oversight.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information was asked to call APD’s Special Investigations Unit at 512-974-6840 or email APDSpecialInvestigations@austintexas.gov, or contact Capital Area Crime Stoppers at 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Newly released body camera footage shows the moment a police officer exchanged gunfire with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-406745","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\/406745","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=406745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}