Authorities in the Texas capital are asking those with videos of the incidents to send them to police. Three other women in their 30s were taken to University Medical Center at Brackenridge with gunshot wounds while another woman refused transport to the hospital.
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“It was a very chaotic scene”, Manley said.
Manley didn’t rule out that a suspect might be one of the people transported to the hospital. “The men and women of the Austin Police Department will work tireless to identify and apprehend the person responsible”.
Austin Police Chief of Staff Brian Manley said police received reports of gunshots in crowded Sixth Street Entertainment District shortly after 2am on Sunday (local time), and found that five people had been shot. Two women and a man have been taken to the hospital. The suspect was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Just after 2 a.m., a gunman who remained at large Sunday evening opened fire into a crowd outside a row of downtown bars at Sixth and Brazos streets, Austin police said. “We had one individual who was initially noted as a person of interest, however that person’s status at this point is undetermined”.
Officials say one person is dead and three others have been hospitalized in a shooting in the entertainment district of downtown Austin.
Austin police had earlier referred to the event as an “active shooter incident” in a tweet.
Manley said it was not clear if the shooter and victims knew each other.
Police are still investigating the shooting, and no arrests had been made.
Police had warned people to stay away from downtown.
APD said a man pulled out a gun and fired it. About a half-hour later police said the scenes of the shootings were secure.
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No additional information was immediately available.
