Police are still withholding the identities of the slain woman and four wounded persons, three of whom received hospital treatment and one who declined transport to a hospital. A separate incident ended with the gunman injured when bystanders helped detain the man after he fired his weapon during a fight.
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Manley said because of the large crowd presence, police were getting descriptions of a suspect from witnesses. He said there was another confrontation in a nearby parking garage and that a shot was sacked there.
Police warned people to avoid the area, tweeting: “Active shooter incident downtown, multiple victims”. The second attack, classified as an assault, took place several blocks away, seven minutes later.
“It was a very chaotic scene”, Manley said.
Police officials confirmed earlier reports that a female thought to be in her 20s had been pronounced dead on the scene.
Captain Rick Rutledge of the Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services tells The Associated Press that one woman is dead and two women and a man have been taken to hospitals following a shooting in the city’s entertainment district.
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Three of the patients were taken to hospital with “serious, but not life threatening injuries”.
