Overview
- City employees discovered a bloody body while emptying a trash can on the 4400 block of Pack Saddle Pass and called Austin police after finding the victim.
- Officers responded to the call and the man was identified as 59-year-old Duc Vo, who was pronounced dead at 1:26 p.m.
- Austin homicide detectives and forensic crime-scene specialists say the body showed signs of blunt force trauma and they are treating the death as an assault.
- Detectives believe the assault and placement of the body in the trash can occurred the prior morning between about 4:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., and no arrests have been reported.
- The case is logged as Austin's 26th homicide of 2026 and the department is asking the public to call 512-974-TIPS or submit anonymous leads to Crime Stoppers with a possible reward up to $1,000 for information that leads to an arrest.