{"id":425157,"date":"2026-09-03T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425157\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:52:17","slug":"security-officer-assaulted-at-huston-tillotson-university-police-look-for-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425157\/","title":{"rendered":"Security officer assaulted at Huston-Tillotson University; police look for suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/chicon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Austin Police Department is searching for a suspect in connection to an assault of a security officer at Huston-Tillotson University.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">APD says the incident happened at around 12:30 a.m. on August 1 at 900 Chicon Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say a man was found to be trespassing on the property of Huston-Tillotson University and a security officer attempted to escort the person off the property.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">APD says that&#8217;s when the man physically assaulted the security officer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The security officer suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspect was seen on security camera footage after the assault and is described as a Black male last seen wearing a dark t-shirt, blue warm-up pants, dark sliders, and green socks.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with information about the identity of the suspect should call the APD Aggravated Assault Unit at 512-512-974-5245.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">You may submit your tip anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or calling 512-472-8477.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A reward of up to $1,000 may be available for any information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from September 1 news release from Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/east-austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Austin Police Department is searching for a suspect in connection to an assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,2924,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-425157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-east-austin","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425157","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=425157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}