Austin shooting suspect wore Iranian flag shirt during attack, sources say

Authorities said they recovered an Iranian emblem and photos of authorities leaders successful the flat of the gunman successful the shooting extracurricular a barroom successful Austin, Texas, connected Sunday morning.

The emblem and the images were discovered during a hunt of the suspect's home, according to CBS News, aft the shooting aboriginal Sunday greeting that near 3 radical dormant and 14 wounded.

The shooter was besides wearing a sweatshirt that work "Property of Allah" and an undershirt featuring an Iranian emblem erstwhile helium carried retired the attack, according to instrumentality enforcement sources.

The suspect, identified arsenic Ndiaga Diagne, was a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. national who was calved successful Senegal and lived successful Pflugerville, Texas, aggregate national instrumentality enforcement sources told Fox News.

A antheral identified by national instrumentality enforcement sources arsenic the gunman successful the Austin shooting that near 3 radical dormant and 14 wounded is seen carrying a firearm and wearing a hoodie referencing "Allah." (Obtained by Fox News)

Diagne archetypal entered the U.S. successful 2000 connected a B-2 tourer visa earlier becoming a lawful imperishable nonmigratory six years aboriginal aft marrying a U.S. citizen. He became a naturalized U.S. national successful 2013.

His transgression past includes being arrested successful Texas successful 2022 for collision with conveyance damage.

The shooting happened extracurricular Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden soon earlier 2 a.m. on Sixth Street, a nightlife destination filled with bars and euphony clubs located adjacent the University of Texas astatine Austin.

Police Chief Lisa Davis said the gunman "put his flashers on, rolled down his model and began utilizing a pistol shooting retired of his car windows, striking patrons of the barroom that were connected the patio and that were successful beforehand of the Bar." The fishy past drove westbound connected Sixth Street to Wood Street, parked, exited the conveyance with a firearm and continued shooting astatine pedestrians, but helium ne'er entered the bar.

Austin Police Department released a photograph of Ndiaga Diagne arsenic the fishy tied to the wide shooting. (Austin Police Department)

Police changeable and killed the gunman, who utilized a pistol and a firearm successful the shooting.

"Today is simply a hard time for our metropolis and the University," the university's president, Jim Davis, said connected X. "We are profoundly saddened by the calamity that occurred aboriginal this greeting successful downtown Austin. Our prayers are with the victims and each those impacted, including members of our Longhorn family. We are besides grateful to the archetypal responders who acted rapidly to prevention lives, and to our UT counselors and unit members who person provided attraction and enactment passim the day."

The FBI said the shooting was a imaginable enactment of terrorism, arsenic authorities proceed to investigate.

"Obviously, it's inactive mode excessively aboriginal successful the process to find an nonstop motivation, but determination were indicators connected the taxable and successful his conveyance that bespeak imaginable nexus to terrorism," Alex Dorn, acting peculiar cause successful complaint of the FBI’s San Antonio Field Office, said astatine a Sunday property conference.

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Police officers defender the country aft a shooting connected March 1, 2026, successful Austin, Texas. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

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"Again, it's inactive excessively aboriginal to marque a determination connected that. That's wherefore we are investigating it precise intimately with our partners with Austin constabulary department," Dorn added.

Asked by a newsman if the lawsuit progressive home oregon planetary terrorism, Dorn said the Joint Terrorism Task Force is engaged.

"We're conscionable astatine this constituent prepared to accidental that it was perchance an enactment of terrorism," helium said.

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