{"id":423353,"date":"2026-09-01T23:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423353\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:34:07","slug":"police-identify-suspect-charged-in-ne-austin-shooting-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423353\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify suspect charged in NE Austin shooting death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police have identified the suspect and the victim in Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-police-investigating-homicide-in-ne-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatal shooting in Northeast Austin<\/a>. The suspect has been charged with murder, according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a shoot\/stab call at 5:34 p.m. Saturday in the 11700 block of Timber Heights Drive after a caller reported that a man had a gun and someone had been shot, police said. Witnesses reported seeing the suspect flee the scene.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found the victim, identified as 35-year-old Tyrell Pordia, suffering from gunshot wounds. Pordia was pronounced dead at 5:53 p.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-police-investigating-homicide-in-ne-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | One dead, suspect in custody following Northeast Austin shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other responding officers located the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Joitorian Bouye, in the immediate area and took him into custody without incident, police said.<\/p>\n<p>APD Homicide detectives and Austin Forensic Science crime scene specialists responded to the scene. Bouye was taken to the homicide office, where he spoke with detectives and admitted to shooting Pordia, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. According to online jail records, he is being held in the Travis County Correctional Complex on a $250,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Police have said the victim and suspect knew each other and that there is no threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being investigated as Austin&#8217;s 38th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Austin police at 512-974-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police have identified the suspect and the victim in Saturday&#8217;s fatal shooting in Northeast Austin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-423353","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\/423353","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=423353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}