{"id":421395,"date":"2026-08-31T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421395\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:40:19","slug":"suspect-in-custody-in-connection-with-northeast-austin-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421395\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in custody in connection with northeast Austin homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadly shooting happened on Timber Heights Drive near East Braker Lane on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A suspect is in custody in connection with a homicide in northeast Austin.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Police Department, the incident happened on Timber Heights Drive near East Braker Lane. Police said they received multiple calls about a shooting on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a man dead and the suspect gone from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police sent out a reverse 911, telling neighbors about the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was later found and taken into custody, APD said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim and the suspect knew each other. Officers are investigating what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>This is being investigated as Austin\u2019s 37th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deadly shooting happened on Timber Heights Drive near East Braker Lane on Saturday evening. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-421395","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\/421395","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=421395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}