{"id":458193,"date":"2026-10-06T17:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458193\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T17:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:34:25","slug":"possible-off-campus-gun-incident-under-investigation-increased-aisd-police-presence-at-akins-echs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458193\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible off-campus gun incident under investigation; increased AISD police presence at Akins ECHS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; School officials say there will be an increased Austin Independent School District police presence on the campus of Akins Early College High School after a possible gun incident off campus.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Akins Early College High School Principal Carman DeLeon said in a letter to families that the incident was reported late on October 5.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">DeLeon said a student may have displayed a gun in an incident that happened off campus near Slaughter.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The incident was reported to the Austin Police Department and to the school&#8217;s campus school resource officer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">An investigation is underway and there will be an increased AISD police presence on campus today (10\/6).<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">&#8220;I understand this news is stressful as we have dealt with previous incidents such as these,&#8221; DeLeon says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">&#8220;We take all reported incidents seriously and investigate immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">DeLeon reminds students and others that if you see something, say something.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Any suspicious behavior should be reported to Austin ISD police at 512-414-1703.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">If you have questions or concerns, you can also contact 512-841-9900.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from letter to families from Akins Early College High School Principal Carman DeLeon.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; School officials say there will be an increased Austin Independent School District police presence on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-458193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458193","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=458193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}