“Stay away from downtown”, Austin police said on Twitter.
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A police spokesman described the scene as “chaotic” with people running in all directions at the sound of gunfire.
Moultrie was pronounced dead at the scene, and three other women were taken to University Medical Center Brackenridge with injuries that were serious, but not life-threatening.
They added the shooting began with a disturbance “between individuals and the suspect in the shooting on 6th Street pulled out a weapon and began firing that weapon into the crowd, at which point these victims were struck”.
It was unclear whether the shooter knew any of the victims. Manley didn’t rule out that a suspect might be one of the people transported to the hospital.
Once police arrived on the scene, they “located additional victims”, the spokesperson said.
No arrest has been made, according to the Austin police.
A second unrelated shooting occurred a short time later at a nearby parking garage, where a man in his 20s was shot and wounded, Manley said.
Multiple people were injured in early-morning shootings in Austin, Texas, police said.
Time Warner Cable News crews at the scene say 6th Street and Brazos are still shut down after the shootings.
Chief Manley commented that he was certain that many witnesses had captured either the incident or its aftermath on their cellphones, so the Austin Police Dept. should look forward into acquiring said footage.
Austin Police say two separate shooting incidents that took place within the same downtown area are now contained.
The Austin Police Department used social media to alert people of the first shooting.
Sam Vedamanikam, 26, told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper that he and several friends were leaving a dance club when they heard four or five gunshots. “A lot of people were screaming”.
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In regards to the first incident, police received a call at 2:17 a.m. about multiple shots fired in downtown Austin. But witnesses stopped the suspect, and took him down.
