{"id":99526,"date":"2025-12-24T08:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/99526\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:28:33","slug":"2021-east-austin-shooting-second-murder-suspect-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/99526\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 East Austin shooting: Second murder suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Austin police made a second arrest in a 2021 murder investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">On Dec. 17, a murder warrant was issued for 29-year-old Lamar James. James was already in prison for unrelated charges.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police said he is the second suspect charged in the murder of James Burrows back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lamar-james.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Lamar James, 29. (This is a previous booking photo). <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to Austin police, on Sunday, August 1, 2021, officers found a man lying in a parking lot on E. 38 \u00bd St.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The victim was later identified as 63-year-old James Burrows.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Travis County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office ruled Burrows&#8217; cause of death as a homicide. He was shot and killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/east-austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Austin police made a second arrest in a 2021 murder investigation.\u00a0 On Dec. 17, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,2924,223,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-99526","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-east-austin","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-travis-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99526","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=99526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}