{"id":452530,"date":"2026-03-01T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452530\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:39:09","slug":"at-least-three-killed-and-14-injured-in-texas-bar-shooting-with-potential-terror-link-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452530\/","title":{"rendered":"At least three killed and 14 injured in Texas bar shooting with potential terror link | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least three people, including the alleged gunman, have been killed after a shooting at a bar in Texas.<\/p>\n

Authorities say 14 others were wounded after the incident in central Austin. The FBI is investigating whether the shooting was an act of terrorism because of “indicators” found on the gunman and in his vehicle.<\/p>\n

But FBI agent Alex Doran said: “It’s still too early to make a determination.”<\/p>\n

Austin police chief Lisa Davis told reporters early on Sunday that her force received reports of a “male shooting” just before 2am at Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden on West Sixth Street, a popular nightlife destination in the city’s entertainment district filled with bars and music clubs.<\/p>\n

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Ms Davis said the suspect, who was driving an SUV, went past the bar several times, before putting the vehicle’s indicators on, opening his window and “shooting [through the open window] with a pistol, striking patrons on the bar patio and in front of the bar”.<\/p>\n

The suspect then parked and “got out of his car armed with a rifle, and began shooting at people passing by”.<\/p>\n

When police ran up to the scene, they found a man with a gun and three officers “returned fire, killing the suspect” at an intersection.<\/p>\n

Ms Davis said they were lucky because of the number of officers who were nearby at the time, and, as bars were closing, they “were able to rapidly move here”.<\/p>\n

Emergency medical services chief Robert Luckritz said three people were found dead at the scene and the injured were taken to hospitals. Of those injured, three were in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

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Mr Luckritz said they got a call “at 1.39am and within 57 seconds, the first paramedics and officers were on scene actively treating the patients”.<\/p>\n

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson praised the rapid response by police and rescuers, saying they “definitely saved lives”.<\/p>\n

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Police have not released the identity of the gunman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least three people, including the alleged gunman, have been killed after a shooting at a bar in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-452530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}