Overview
- Police found 23-year-old Tyris Rivers with a gunshot wound in a breezeway outside a Southeast Austin apartment and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Twenty-nine-year-old Jaquan Easley remained at the scene, was taken into custody and has been charged with murder.
- An arrest affidavit says Easley waived his Miranda rights and told detectives Rivers attacked him twice and that he shot Rivers three times at close range.
- Detectives report wound locations and firing-distance indicators that point to shots from behind and from farther away than Easley described, which investigators say contradicts his self-defense claim.
- The case is being investigated as Austin’s 35th homicide of 2026, detectives are continuing forensic work and witness interviews, and police are asking the public to provide tips through official tip lines.