Austin Police Kill Armed Gunman After 3 Die, 14 Wounded Bar Shooting

Three radical are dormant and 14 others injured aft a shooting astatine a engaged barroom successful Austin, Texas, aboriginal Sunday morning, authorities said.

The gunfire erupted conscionable earlier 2 a.m. astatine Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden connected West Sixth Street, a packed amusement territory downtown.

When officers arrived, they encountered an equipped antheral suspect. Three officers opened fire, sidesplitting the suspect.

Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz pointed to however rapidly archetypal responders got to the scene.

Three radical are dormant and 14 injured aft a gunman opened occurrence astatine a crowded Austin barroom aboriginal Sunday, constabulary said. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

"We received a telephone astatine 1:39 a.m. and wrong 57 seconds, the archetypal paramedics and officers were connected country actively treating the patients," Luckritz said.

City officials, including Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, praised the accelerated constabulary and EMS response, saying it "definitely saved lives."

Luckritz said 3 of the injured were listed successful captious information and taken to country hospitals.

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Officers changeable and killed the suspected gunman aft responding to reports of gunfire connected West Sixth Street successful downtown Austin. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

The shooting comes amid ongoing information concerns on Austin’s Sixth Street amusement strip, which has seen aggregate convulsive incidents successful caller years arsenic constabulary and concern owners enactment to amended crowd-control measures, according to section KVUE.

"There is chaos successful beforehand of that barroom each weekend, OK? This is not a caller thing," Hugo Mendez, proprietor of Blindside Tattoos and Blindside Lounge, told the outlet. "It's not needfully Sixth Street. It's definite bars… that don't transportation the standard."

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Austin-Travis County EMS said 3 victims were killed and 3 others stay successful captious information pursuing the barroom shooting. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Authorities person acceptable up a Victim Services Unit hotline for families seeking information.

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The probe remains active. Officials said much details are expected aboriginal Sunday.

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