{"id":448178,"date":"2026-09-26T05:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448178\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T05:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:46:29","slug":"police-identify-man-shot-by-homeowner-during-south-austin-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448178\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify man shot by homeowner during South Austin burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police have identified the man <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-police-investigating-second-homicide-in-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found dead outside a South Austin home<\/a> early Wednesday and say he was shot by the homeowner after breaking into the house.<\/p>\n<p>Dmario Antonie Jones, 24, entered a home in the 200 block of Virtus Bend, went into a bedroom and was shot by the homeowner during the burglary, according to a preliminary investigation by the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-police-investigating-second-homicide-in-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Man found dead in South Austin front yard; death unrelated to homicide one hour earlier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the home at 3:51 a.m. and found Jones with apparent gunshot wounds, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Austin-Travis County EMS tried to save him, but he was pronounced dead at 4:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner was interviewed by homicide detectives and has been fully cooperative, police said. The homeowner was released, and no charges have been filed.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Officer Aaron Townsend said that officers found the man with &#8220;obvious trauma to his body&#8221; in the home&#8217;s front yard.<\/p>\n<p>Jones&#8217; death came less than an hour after a man was <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-homicide-in-east-austin-09-23-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found dead<\/a> inside an apartment on Springdale Road in East Austin. Police said the two cases are not connected.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Austin police at 512-974-8477. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Capital Area Crime Stoppers at <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police have identified the man found dead outside a South Austin home early Wednesday and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-448178","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\/448178","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=448178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}