The Williamson County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for help identifying a man captured on surveillance footage in connection with a homicide investigation, warning residents not to approach him if spotted. Investigators describe the suspect as a Black male with short dreadlocks and frosted tips, and say he is believed to be dangerous.
The appeal went out Monday in a post from the Williamson County Sheriff's Office, the official account for the county's law enforcement agency, which included the surveillance image and asked anyone who recognizes the man to call 911 immediately with information about his current whereabouts. The post explicitly instructs the public not to approach the individual under any circumstances. Confirming the criminal nature of the case, the Williamson County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Division has determined this is a homicide investigation, though the agency has not disclosed further details such as the date, location, or victim connected to the case.
Please see the attached surveillance photo.
— Williamson County Sheriff's Office (@WCSOTXSheriff) September 7, 2026
If you recognize this individual and have any information related to their current whereabouts, call 911 immediately. If you see this individual, do not approach, and call 911 immediately, as they are believed to be dangerous.
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Beyond the surveillance photo and the caution against approaching the suspect, few additional details have been made public. It remains unclear where the underlying homicide occurred, who the victim was, or where the surveillance footage originated.
A County Where Homicides Remain Rare
The bulletin lands in a county experiencing rapid growth. Williamson County's population now exceeds 670,000 residents, making it one of the fastest-expanding counties in the Austin-Round Rock metro area, according to Niche. Despite that growth, the county's violent crime rate remains well below the national average, with roughly 0.6 homicides per 100,000 residents compared to a national rate of 6.1, per the same source. That makes any homicide investigation a notable event for a county where property crimes and non-violent calls otherwise dominate deputies' workloads.
The Williamson County Sheriff's Office is led by Sheriff Mike Gleason, who took office in January 2021 after more than three decades in local law enforcement, according to a KVUE report on his tenure. His office oversees criminal investigations across the county's unincorporated areas, often working alongside municipal departments in cities like Georgetown and Round Rock as well as federal agencies when suspects flee the jurisdiction.
A Pattern of Task Force Collaboration
This is not the first time WCSO detectives have leaned on outside partners to close a violent crime case. In May 2025, the Criminal Investigation Division worked with the U.S. Marshals Service to track down and arrest a 20-year-old homicide suspect tied to an April 25 shooting on McShepherd Road near Georgetown, with detectives securing a $500,000 bond warrant before the arrest in neighboring Travis County. The agency has also handled homicide cases entirely within its own jurisdiction, including a September 2025 fatal shooting on Chandler Pointe Loop outside Round Rock and a February 2025 fatal violence case on Jennifer Circle that led to felony family violence charges after consultation with the Williamson County District Attorney's Office.
The timing of the new bulletin coincides with a busy holiday weekend for the sheriff's office. Over the September 5-6 Labor Day weekend, the agency's Traffic Enforcement Division ran a heightened “No Refusal Weekend” patrol deployment across county roadways, using on-call magistrate judges to expedite blood-draw search warrants during the high-traffic period.
How to Report Information
Anyone with information can also go through Williamson County Crime Stoppers, which offers anonymous tip channels by phone at 1-800-253-7867, online at wilcocrimetips.org, or through the P3Tips mobile app. Tipsters who provide information leading to an arrest in a homicide case can receive cash rewards of up to $5,000, and each tip is assigned a unique code number to protect the source's identity throughout the investigation.
Should the suspect eventually be identified, arrested, and charged, Texas law lays out a wide range of potential consequences. Under Texas Penal Code Section 19.02, murder is a first-degree felony punishable by five to 99 years or life in prison, while Section 19.03 elevates a killing to capital murder — punishable by death or life without parole — when it occurs alongside aggravating felonies such as robbery or burglary. No charges have been filed at this time, and the man in the surveillance photo has not been named; he remains a suspect sought for identification, not a person who has been arrested or convicted of any crime.
