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<\/p>\nAUSTIN, Texas – One person is dead after a stabbing at a North Austin group home, says the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
At around 7 a.m. Dec. 18, Austin police responded to a shoot\/stab hotshot call in the 11000 block of Bending Bough Trail.<\/p>\n
Someone called 911, reporting a disturbance at a group home and that someone had been stabbed, and the suspect had left the house.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found a white man in his 70s with “obvious trauma to his body” and injuries consistent with stab wounds. Despite life-saving efforts, the man later died at a local hospital just before 8 a.m.<\/p>\n
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APD homicide detectives have been speaking with witnesses and residents about the incident.<\/p>\n
Within 20 to 30 minutes of the investigation beginning, the suspect, described by police as a Black man in his 20s, returned to the scene and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
This death is being investigated as an isolated incident and Austin’s 52nd homicide of 2025.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know:<\/p>\n
Both the suspect and the victim were residents of the group home, but APD says they do not know the specific relationship between the two.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is also unknown at this time what kind of group home it is.<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on this incident is urged to contact the Crime Stoppers tip line at 512-472-8477 (TIPS) or the APD Homicide tip line at 512-974-3588.<\/p>\n
Second homicide in five hours for APD One person is dead and a suspect is at large after an overnight homicide in North Austin. FOX 7 Austin’s Jessica Rivera has more.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n This is the second homicide within five hours within relatively the same area, according to APD.<\/p>\n Overnight, a man was killed in the 11900 block of North I-35, in the Braker Lane\/Yager Lane area, just about two miles away from the Bending Bough Trail homicide.<\/p>\n APD says that at this time, there is no connection between the homicides.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report comes from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>North Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – One person is dead after a stabbing at a North Austin group home, says the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,1466,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-93019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-north-austin","14":"tag-travis-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93019","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=93019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Homicide](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cjad0mu5k9p98wa7.jpg\")
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