AUSTIN, Texas — Police have arrested a suspect in connection to a death that happened inside a North Austin hotel room on March 28.
At approximately 11:36 a.m. on March 28, Austin 911 received a report of man who had been shot inside a room at the WoodSpring Suites Austin located at 11105 N. Interstate 35.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found a man, identified as Brandon Williams, with gunshot wounds. Medics took Williams to Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas, where he later died.
On March 29, police arrested Jose Angel Negrete Jr. in Austin on an outstanding warrant for first-degree murder, according to an arrest affidavit. The document states Williams and Negrete Jr. knew each other. Negrete Jr. would sell Williams weed and hats, the affidavit states. The APD said on March 31 that the suspect was at the hotel to deliver marijuana to the victim and it believed the death was the result of an altercation.
Multiple gunshots were heard while Williams was escorting Negrete Jr. out of the hotel room, according to the affidavit. Police later recovered video showing a suspect, identified as Negrete Jr., entering the hotel room with a black handgun in his waistband and leaving the room with the gun in his hand. The video shows Negrete Jr. drop the gun while running down the stairs and then picking it back up before running out of the emergency exit, the affidavit stated.
This is Austin’s 19th homicide of 2021.
Negrete Jr. was also convicted of burglary of a habitation and evading arrest with a vehicle in Hays County in 2018 and was wanted for violating parole, according to a press release from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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