Mary Gonzales, a 43-year-old Hispanic female from Austin, was discovered unresponsive on the morning of October 6, 2025, in a vacant lot behind a German auto repair shop along the 8100 block of Research Boulevard. An employee found her around 7:40 a.m.; she was pronounced dead minutes later, and investigators determined she had been shot, making it one of the city's homicides that fall. Early witness accounts pointed to a late-night incident—someone nearby recalled a “popping” sound late S
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