AUSTIN, Texas — A man is in custody after Austin police said he assaulted a family member and sparked a SWAT callout at the Bel Aire Mobile Home Park on Airport Boulevard Friday night.
Around 10:40 p.m., Austin 311 and 911 received calls about an assault at the park. Austin police said officers arrived on the scene within four minutes. When they got there, a 60-year-old man said he had been assaulted by a family member who went back inside their home to grab a gun. The victim said the suspect was intoxicated.
When officers tried to get the suspect out of the home, he refused to come outside, triggering the SWAT call. During the call, neighbors in the mobile home park were evacuated.
Officers then took the victim to the front of the park to get medical attention. That's when they later realized the suspect had escaped.
"We believe when [the] officer grabbed the victim and brought him to the entrance and then went back to the entrance, that's when the suspect escaped, went a mile east to Ed Bluestein," Officer Bino Cadenas said.
Just before 3 a.m. Saturday, a man walking down Ed Bluestein Boulevard flagged down an officer a mile away from the Bel Aire Mobile Home Park. The man told police he had been assaulted. When the man told police his name, they identified him as the suspect in the assault case.
The suspect is now being held at the Travis County Jail and is expected to be charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The victim is being treated at a hospital with serious, not-expected-to-be-life-threatening injuries.
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