AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department (APD) has released the body-worn camera footage from its officers who responded to Sunday morning’s shooting at a West 6th Street bar, which left three people dead and many others injured. The FBI has said that it is investigating the shooting as a potential act of terrorism.
On Sunday, March 1, at 1:58 a.m., a gunman opened fire outside Buford’s—a popular bar among college students and young adults in Austin. Police and EMS arrived on the scene within 57 seconds of the first 911 call, and the emergency response has been largely praised by local, state and federal officials.
The body camera footage shows bargoers and pedestrians fleeing and ducking for cover in the moments after the gunman began firing.
“Everybody down!” one officer yells. “Where is he?”
Screaming and shouts of “get down” can be heard on a 911 call released Thursday. “There has been a shooting at Buford’s,” one caller said. “There are people dead over here. We need help right now.”
At 2:03 a.m., the suspected shooter, identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, was located and shot by three police officers and pronounced dead at the scene. APD said on Thursday that it would not be releasing the names of the three officers at this time because of the FBI investigation.
“Per APD protocol, the officers have been placed on administrative leave,” a news release from APD said.
Davis said the investigation is ongoing and would not discuss a possible motive for the shooting that erupted a day after the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran. Diagne was not on the radar of authorities before he opened fire early Sunday. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said investigators have found he was the subject of a mental health-related welfare check, possibly in 2022, by an agency elsewhere.
The three victims who died were later identified as 19-year-old Ryder Harrington, 21-year-old Savitha Shan and 30-year-old Jorge Pederson. On Thursday, police increased the number of people injured to 16 gunshot victims, all treated at local hospitals.
“At this time, two victims remain at a local hospital, with one in critical condition,” Thursday’s release said.
Along with the body camera footage, police also released two 911 calls, police radio traffic audio, video from a parked vehicle and surveillance video of the incident. All of these are available on APD’s YouTube page and other social media platforms.
On Wednesday, Travis County District Attorney José Garza said that he was closing his office’s review of the police officers’ response to the shooting and that no charges will be brought against the officers who shot and killed the suspect. He said the police response to the shooting “undoubtedly saved lives and prevented additional injuries.”
“After the review, it is clear and indisputable that at the time the officers were responding to an active shooting in a mass casualty situation, and that the subject of the shooting was in the act of using unlawful deadly force,” Garza said in a news release. “For these reasons and based on the facts now known to us, we are closing our review and no action will be taken.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called the police officers “heroes who saved lives” in a post on X and made it clear that he did not support any sort of legal action against the officers involved in the shooting.
These police officers are heroes who saved lives.
Whatever the DA does, I will have the final say in the fate of these police officers. https://t.co/tixPCVWwOY
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 3, 2026