{"id":474166,"date":"2026-10-23T04:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474166\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:36:14","slug":"lockdown-lifted-at-cox-elementary-after-police-incident-in-cedar-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474166\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown lifted at Cox Elementary after police incident in Cedar Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEDAR PARK, Texas \u2014 A lockdown at Cox Elementary School has been lifted after police responded to an incident in a nearby neighborhood Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Cedar Park Police Department, officers were on scene near Dark Woods Drive and Antelope Ridge. Police first reported the incident in a social media post around 2:28 p.m. on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/19-million-texans-are-registered-to-vote-breaking-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| 19 million Texans are registered to vote, breaking record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the situation was contained but that a police presence remained in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Although police reported no threat to the public or the school, Cox Elementary was placed on lockdown as a precaution due to its proximity to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>In a subsequent update, Cedar Park police confirmed the scene had been cleared, and the lockdown was lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released details about the nature of the incident or whether anyone was taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CEDAR PARK, Texas \u2014 A lockdown at Cox Elementary School has been lifted after police responded to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-474166","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\/474166","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=474166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}