{"id":445086,"date":"2026-09-23T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445086\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:08:08","slug":"austin-police-investigating-second-homicide-in-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445086\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin police investigating second homicide in hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are investigating a homicide in South Austin early Wednesday, just hours after a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-homicide-in-east-austin-09-23-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">man was killed<\/a> inside an East Austin apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department said in a post on X that officers were investigating a homicide at 206 Virtus Bend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-homicide-in-east-austin-09-23-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Man killed inside East Austin apartment; police searching for suspect<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The homicide is separate from the earlier incident on Springdale Road. It was not immediately clear whether the two are related.<\/p>\n<p>Police are expected to provide an update on the Virtus Bend homicide at 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about either case is asked to call the Austin police homicide tip line at 512-974-8477 or Crime Stoppers at 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are investigating a homicide in South Austin early Wednesday, just hours after a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-445086","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\/445086","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=445086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}