{"id":468467,"date":"2026-10-17T03:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468467\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:52:11","slug":"man-shot-by-person-inside-vehicle-before-crashing-in-downtown-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468467\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot by person inside vehicle before crashing in downtown Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man was seriously injured after being shot by someone inside his vehicle before crashing in downtown Austin Friday evening, according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened near West 10th Street and North Lamar Boulevard. APD Watch Command said officers received the initial call around 7:18 p.m. on Oct. 16 and arrived at the scene at 7:21 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the vehicle was traveling when someone inside allegedly shot the driver, causing him to crash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/close-races-could-bring-scrutiny-over-elections-as-early-voting-approaches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Close races could bring more scrutiny over elections as early voting approaches<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The driver, an adult man, was transported to a hospital with serious injuries and was taken into surgery Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police said everyone inside the vehicle knew one another. Investigators were interviewing witnesses who were inside the car at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>APD also said a possible suspect was in custody and being questioned as investigators worked to determine their involvement.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances leading up to the shooting remain under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man was seriously injured after being shot by someone inside his vehicle before crashing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-468467","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\/468467","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=468467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}