{"id":4385,"date":"2025-10-15T06:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/4385\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:41:07","slug":"man-arrested-charged-with-murder-in-strangulation-death-of-ex-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/4385\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested, charged with murder in strangulation death of ex-girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the strangulation death of his ex-girlfriend<\/a> in Central Austin earlier this month, police said.<\/p>\n

Paul Allen was arrested Oct. 9, four days after Nitza Debiase, 28, was found dead in her bedroom at 4406 Avenue A, the Austin Police Department said.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to a report of a deceased person at the address at approximately 11:53 a.m. Oct. 5. Debiase was pronounced dead at 12:04 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Homicide detectives and crime scene specialists processed the scene and interviewed witnesses. Investigators believe Debiase was physically attacked and strangled by Allen, who then left the area, police said.<\/p>\n

Allen was located and arrested with assistance from the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, Pflugerville Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety and Austin police tactical intelligence and air units. <\/p>\n

He has been charged with first-degree murder. According to online records, he remains in the Travis County Correctional Complex and is being held on a $500,000 bond.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact Austin police at 512-974-8477 or submit an anonymous tip through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n

The case is being investigated as Austin’s 46th homicide of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the strangulation death of his ex-girlfriend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1680,132,134,133,4000,2461,636,4753,4754,4752],"class_list":{"0":"post-4385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-ex-girlfriend","13":"tag-homicide","14":"tag-murder","15":"tag-nitza-debiase","16":"tag-paul-allen","17":"tag-strangulation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","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=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}