{"id":427777,"date":"2026-09-06T05:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427777\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:14:25","slug":"south-austin-hostage-call-prompts-swat-response-suspect-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427777\/","title":{"rendered":"South Austin Hostage Call Prompts SWAT Response; Suspect in Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man was taken into custody Saturday following a Friday evening call that prompted a SWAT response in South Austin.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department was called shortly before 11 p.m. to the 5700 block of Sunset Ridge, where family members and witnesses confirmed reports of a man threatening them and preventing a female victim from leaving the residence, Austin police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to APD, SWAT officers were called in because of the nature of the call. Hostage negotiators, K-9 officers, bomb squad personnel, patrol officers and victim services also responded, along with Austin-Travis County EMS and the Austin Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to get the woman safely out of the home, police said. The suspect then barricaded himself inside the residence armed with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect, woman and witnesses are all family members, though officials did not immediately provide more details about their relationships.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/leander-removes-all-flock-cameras-ends-use-of-license-plate-reader-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Leander removes all Flock cameras, ends use of license plate reader system<\/a><\/p>\n<p>APD later said the suspect was taken into custody and the woman was released.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not immediately release the suspect\u2019s identity or provide additional details. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man was taken into custody Saturday following a Friday evening call that prompted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-427777","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\/427777","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=427777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}