APD asking for help identifying victim in South Austin This is the first homicide of 2025 APD said the victim was murdered and then set on fire as an attempt to cover up the murder AUSTIN, Texas - The Austin Police Department needs help identifying a victim killed in the first homicide of the year.

Originally, police said detectives were investigating the incident as a suspicious death and not a homicide. In an update Monday afternoon, police confirmed the case had become a murder investigation after the autopsy detailed “sharp force injuries” and trauma on the victim’s body.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Saturday, the Austin Police Department confirmed it was investigating a homicide in southeast Austin. According to police, the initial call came in at approximately 4 a.m. for a fire in the 1700 block of Nelms Drive, near Interstate 35 and William Cannon Drive.

Have you seen him? Austin police are looking for a person of interest in connection to a deadly Southeast Austin shooting.

Police are investigating after a body was found after a fire in a wooded area of southeast Austin. READ MORE: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/apd-investigating-death-in-southeast-austin-4/ Millions should prepare for disrupted travel and winter conditions as a fierce storm is set to bring ice, snow and freezing rain to much of the U.S.