Double homicide and Austin AMBER Alert suspect in custody: APD

AUSTIN, Texas – A man connected to an AMBER Alert for three missing Austin children and a double murder in southeast Austin is in custody, Austin police said.

Austin police said 31-year-old Sherles Gregorio Machado-Hernandez was taken into custody Monday evening in the 900 block of Fairfield Drive in north Austin.

He will be booked into the Travis County Jail.

Austin police said around 7:38 a.m. Oct. 14, officers responded to a double homicide in the 1800 block of Burton Drive.

“APD officers responded to the 1800 block of Burton Drive in reference to a shots fired call,” said Corporal Jose Mendez of the Austin Police Department.

When officers arrived, they found two people, a man and a woman, dead from gunshot wounds.

Sherles Machado Hernandez, 31

“When APD officers arrived on scene, they actually found two deceased individuals, a male and a female, with apparent gunshot wounds,” Mendez said.

When police found the bodies, they had been at the apartment complex on Burton Drive near Woodland Avenue for some time.

A white GMC was towed with the glass on the driver's side window visibly shattered.

The dead woman's children, Ninel Anseume Sayas, 10, Abraham Anseume, 4, and Elsi Anseume, 2, were missing and an AMBER alert was issued on Monday afternoon. The children were found safe several hours later.

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No weapon was found at the scene and the shooter was identified as Sherles Machado Hernandez, 31.

Hernandez was also the suspect in connection with the kidnapped children in Austin.

Police ask those with information to call 512-477-3588 or CrimeStoppers at 512-472-TIPS (8477).