About an hour later, he went to Shadywood Drive, shooting and killing Emmanuel Pop Ba and Sabrina Rahman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pop Ba, a handyman, was shot in his truck, and his truck was stolen. Rahman was walking with her baby.<\/p>\n
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In the evening, police say James shot a cyclist on West Slaughter Lane, who survived.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Austral Loop, police responded to a burglary and came across James in a backyard, who fired at an officer. The officer fired back. James wasn’t hit, and the officer recovered. Police found two bodies in the home, later identified as Katherine and Lauren Short.<\/p>\n
James was finally arrested after leading police on a chase.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2024, James was found incompetent to stand trial<\/a> and was sent to a state mental hospital for treatment. In 2025, his competency was restored. In May 2026, he pleaded not guilty.\u00a0<\/p>\n We have learned a lot about Shane James, the suspect in the Texas shooting spree that killed six people in Austin and San Antonio. According to law enforcement, James has a history in the military, and a history of mental health issues.<\/p>\n Last July, he was found competent to stand trial<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n In September, attorneys for James filed with the court saying they intend to use an insanity defense<\/a> for the actions he took during the time of the crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report comes from reporting by FOX 7 Austin’s Angela Shen and previous reporting by FOX 7 Austin.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>San Antonio<\/a>Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – Jury selection has begun in the trial of Shane James Jr, a man accused of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,698,1046,223,82,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-478587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bexar-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478587","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=478587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Texas](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5k21gg8m1u4j0kgp.jpg\")
Texas shooting spree: Who is the shooter?<\/a> <\/p>\n