{"id":45987,"date":"2025-08-11T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45987"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:54:35","slug":"3-killed-in-shooting-at-austin-target-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45987","title":{"rendered":"3 killed in shooting at Austin Target store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">AUSTIN, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/multiple-killed-hurt-in-north-austin-shooting\/\"><u>KXAN<\/u><\/a>) \u2014 Three people were killed in a shooting at a Target in north Austin, Texas, Monday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police were called to the Target located at 8601 Research Boulevard at 2:15 p.m., said Chief Lisa Davis. They arrived on scene within minutes and found three people shot in the Target parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The suspect hijacked a car and took off, Davis said. He crashed that car, she said, then hijacked another vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He was finally detained in south Austin after being tased. The suspect was described by Davis as a 32-year-old man with a history of mental health issues, but his name was not released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police said two people were pronounced dead at the scene, and another was transported to a local hospital where they died. A fourth person was treated for unrelated injuries, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI was inside the store but then I hear on the radio like shots fired so then they just told us active shooter\u2026so we just ran outside, we told guests to get out,\u201d Freyen Sagastume, a Target employee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police declined to share details on the victims Monday afternoon. \u201cThis is a very sad day for Austin. It\u2019s a very sad day for us all and my condolences go out to the families,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police and ATC EMS respond to a shooting on Research Boulevard Aug. 11, 2025 (KXAN Photo\/Ed Zavala)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police urged the community to stay away from the Target store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Roads in the area were also closed off Monday afternoon and vehicles were being held in the parking lot as the investigation continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5447042-3-killed-in-shooting-at-austin-target-store\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) \u2014 Three people were killed in a shooting at a Target in north Austin, Texas, Monday afternoon, police said. Police were called to the Target located at 8601 Research Boulevard at 2:15 p.m., said Chief Lisa Davis. They arrived on scene within minutes and found three people shot in the Target parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[2286,1530,2153,7383],"class_list":["post-45987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-austin","tag-shooting","tag-store","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45989,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45987\/revisions\/45989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}