Three people were killed and another person was injured in two separate Austin-area homicide investigations that began late Fourth of July night and continued into Sunday morning.
The first shooting was reported around 11:48 p.m. in the parking lot of Michelobos at 900 E. Braker Lane, where Austin police said officers found two injured men. Both were taken to a hospital. One died shortly before 12:30 a.m., and the other was listed in stable condition, according to police. A person of interest was detained as part of the investigation, police said.
Hours later, Travis County sheriff’s deputies were called to a shooting at 9705 Reservoir Court, where two people were killed after an altercation in a nightclub parking lot, according to the Travis County Sheriff’s Office.
Kristen Dark, a sheriff’s office spokesperson, said deputies responded just before 4 a.m. after a 911 caller reported shots fired. Multiple shots were fired after an altercation outside the establishment, where Dark said close to 400 people were either inside the business or in the parking lot at the time.
A man in his 20s died at the scene. A woman, believed to be in her late teens or early 20s, later died at a hospital, Dark said.
Deputies spent several hours clearing the scene because of the size of the crowd, Dark said. Investigators were interviewing witnesses, speaking with family members and reviewing video evidence as they worked to determine what led to the shooting.
Dark said it was too early to say whether the altercation began inside the nightclub or whether the two people killed knew each other.
No arrests had been announced in the Reservoir Court shooting as of the sheriff’s office’s early update.