{"id":471903,"date":"2026-10-20T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471903\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:52:08","slug":"two-arrested-after-man-shot-near-downtown-austin-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471903\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested after man shot near downtown Austin gas station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Two men have been arrested in the shooting of a man near a downtown Austin gas station early Sunday morning, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to reports of a shooting at a gas station in the 700 block of East 7th Street at about 2:12 a.m. and found a 27-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his upper left leg, according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officers and bystanders gave the man first aid before Austin-Travis County EMS took him to a hospital. He was in critical but stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apd-to-give-update-seek-help-in-deadly-july-4-shooting-near-northeast-austin-bar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Austin police, victim&#8217;s mother ask witnesses to come forward in July Fourth killing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation found the man and a group of people had been in a fight near East Sixth Street, police said. He was shot as the group was leaving in a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators identified the people involved, and officers later found two of them in a vehicle, police said. Officers recovered a gun from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Ortega Jr., 21, and Jaivan Lee Antonio Ortega, 21, were arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Two men have been arrested in the shooting of a man near a downtown Austin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-471903","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\/471903","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=471903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}