{"id":427897,"date":"2026-09-06T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427897\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:26:08","slug":"suspect-located-hostage-released-after-swat-response-in-south-austin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427897\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect located, hostage released after SWAT response in South Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 One suspect was located following a SWAT response in South Austin late Friday night into early Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department responded to the 5700 block of Sunset Ridge just before 11 p.m. Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Police stated that they received a call saying that a male suspect was brandishing a firearm, was threatening family members, and was not allowing a female victim to leave the residence. <\/p>\n<p>It was confirmed that the relationship between the suspect and the victim, as well as all of the witnesses, was that they were family members. <\/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>When officers arrived, they located family members and witnesses and requested SWAT officers and hostage negotiators to respond to the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The victim was eventually released and allowed to leave the residence, but the suspect was still thought to be barricaded in the residence with a firearm at around 2:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect was located by 3:30 a.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 One suspect was located following a SWAT response in South Austin late Friday night into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-427897","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\/427897","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=427897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}