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Suspects Arrested in Four of Five Central Texas Homicides This Week

With the annual homicide tally approaching 40 in Austin, law enforcement agencies are grappling with a sustained surge in fatal violence

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Overview

  • The Travis County Sheriff’s Office says an 18-year-old relative of the victim was arrested after a Moore Road shooting on August 4 that left one person dead.
  • Austin police report detaining a person in connection with a traumatic-injury shooting near their downtown headquarters just before 4 a.m.
  • Investigators continue probing the death of a man found on the northbound I-35 frontage road near East Rundberg Lane on August 3.
  • Leander officers charged 18-year-old Shaunathan Raby on July 31 in the Robin Bledsoe Park shooting that killed 26-year-old Bodhi Allen Linman.
  • Austin police ruled the July 29 East Austin incident a murder-suicide after determining Jon Nickowski shot Kimberly Sullivan before taking his own life.