{"id":462545,"date":"2026-10-11T00:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462545\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:16:30","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-following-northeast-austin-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462545\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder following northeast Austin homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident happened on Tuesday morning in the 1000 block of Norwood Park Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man has been arrested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/crime\/police-investigating-homicide-tuesday-morning-northeast-austin\/269-eda1f0af-b419-4b1a-9dd4-42b240e6ac30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">in connection with a homicide in northeast Austin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Police Department (APD) officers responded to a welfare check call from a CapMetro bus driver shortly before 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. The driver reported that a person was bleeding on the ground in the 1000 block of Norwood Park Boulevard, near a Walmart Supercenter.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, identified as 66-year-old Jefferey Grable, was pronounced dead at the scene by Austin-Travis County EMS.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe Grable had laid down near the bus stop several hours before a suspect approached and assaulted him, killing him. The suspect then fled, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, investigators identified the suspect as 33-year-old Jesse C. Monroe II.<\/p>\n<p>APD\u2019s Tactical Intelligence Unit, with assistance from the APD&#8217;s Edward (Northeast) 300 patrol shift, arrested Monroe in the 1000 block of West Rundberg Lane. Monroe was taken to the Travis County Jail and charged with murder, a first-degree felony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident happened on Tuesday morning in the 1000 block of Norwood Park Boulevard. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-462545","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\/462545","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=462545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}