{"id":421379,"date":"2026-08-31T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421379\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:16:12","slug":"police-investigating-homicide-off-woodland-avenue-in-southeast-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421379\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating homicide off Woodland Avenue in southeast Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Austin Police Department, the incident happened near the intersection with Burton Drive on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are investigating after a homicide in southeast Austin on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Police Department, the incident happened near Woodland Avenue and Burton Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arriving on the scene found a vehicle that had crashed into a fence at the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>A man was located inside the vehicle &#8220;with obvious trauma to his body,&#8221; APD said. He was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>APD said police are canvasing the area looking for the suspect, who fled before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to contact police at 512-974-8477 or contact Crime Stoppers anonymous at 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p>This is being investigated as Austin&#8217;s 38th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Austin Police Department, the incident happened near the intersection with Burton Drive on Sunday. AUSTIN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-421379","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\/421379","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=421379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}