Monday's report. A man shot dead over a moving truck deposit. A deputy charged with groping a woman at a gas station. Four teenagers accused of luring a classmate into a garage and torturing him with baseball bats. And a congressman wants to know why Austin's DA keeps letting people walk.Let's get to it.Thursday evening, around five forty-two p.m., officers responded to a shooting call at the Penske truck rental facility at 8201 Tuscany Way in northeast Austin, near U.S. 290.When they arrived, they found thirty-nine-year-old William Rogers on the ground with gunshot wounds. Two other men were standing nearby. Rogers was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead just before seven p.m.According to the Austin Police Department, Rogers, twenty-eight-year-old Javarus Crumpton, and a third individual were acquaintances who worked together as movers. They'd met at the Penske location to rent a truck. An argument broke out over the cost of the rental deposit. Police say Crumpton shot Rogers during the dispute.A rental deposit. That's what this was about.Crumpton and the third person remained at the scene and are cooperating with investigators. As of today, no arrests have been made and no charges have been filed. The Travis County District Attorney's office has been notified. This is being investigated as Austin's seventeenth homicide of 2026.Next. A Travis County Sheriff's Office deputy has been arrested and charged with official oppression — a Class A misdemeanor. Cedar Park Police say the deputy approached a woman at a QuikTrip gas station and engaged in an encounter lasting approximately one hour, during which he allegedly groped her.The deputy has been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation. His name has not been released by the sheriff's office. The arrest was made in February, but details only became public this week through reporting by KXAN and the Austin American-Statesman.Official oppression. That's the charge when someone acting under color of law violates someone's rights. It carries up to a year in county jail.Now to the story that's dominated Austin crime news this week. Four former Del Valle High School students — all seventeen years old — have been charged with aggravated kidnapping with a deadly weapon. That's a first-degree felony.The suspects: Jose Rojas-Alvarado, Oscar Armando Santiago-Martinez, Angel Lemus-Perez, and Carlos Roberto Oliva-Villeda. According to arrest affidavits filed in Travis County, on February nineteenth, three of the suspects left school with the victim and told him they were going to get pizza.They did not get pizza.Instead, the affidavits say, the victim was driven to a home in the thirteen-thousand-three-hundred block of FM 969, where the fourth suspect was waiting inside a detached garage. Once inside, one suspect allegedly held a gun to the back of the victim's head while others restrained him with duct tape — binding his hands, feet, and mouth.Investigators say the victim was beaten with aluminum bats, a walking cane, and a belt. He was allegedly burned and forced to drink alcohol. The assault was recorded by one of the suspects. The motive, according to the affidavits: a dispute involving a girl.The victim was eventually released and reported the incident to authorities. Investigators documented extensive bruising across his back, chest, and legs. At least some of the suspects admitted to planning the attack approximately a week in advance.Del Valle ISD confirmed the suspects are no longer enrolled in the district.And finally — the political angle. On April second, Congressman Chip Roy sent a letter to Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, demanding answers on what Roy called a quote, "soft-on-crime approach that has led criminals to run loose in Austin." Roy cited patterns of leniency, missed deadlines, and dismissed charges. He wrote, quote, "The police are debilitated and demoralized, victims are discarded and disrespected, and justice is often delayed or denied."Whether you agree with the politics or not, here's what the numbers say: seventeen homicides in Austin through the first three months of 2026. And we're still counting.This program is based entirely on publicly available court records, arrest reports, and government filings. All individuals discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Agent Monday is a production of Quiet Please and Inception Point AI.That's the record. The filing's on the desk. The questions are on the floor. And nobody in Austin seems to have the answers.Monday out.This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.
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