AUSTIN, Texas — SWAT officers spent hours surrounding a North Austin apartment complex early Monday after a shooting left one person with minor injuries. The suspect remains at large.
The Austin Police Department said officers were called to the 8200 block of Sam Rayburn Drive around 1:40 a.m. after reports of shots fired in an apartment complex parking lot. Officers arriving on scene found a victim with minor injuries.
Police said they learned a possible suspect had fled into a nearby apartment. Because a firearm was involved and the person was believed to be isolated inside a residence, patrol officers requested SWAT.
SWAT units set up a perimeter and worked to make contact with the person believed to be inside, according to police.
Police said that officers had not been able to establish direct contact and that the belief the suspect was in the apartment was based on information from community members rather than confirmed police contact.
Police said investigators believe the shooting followed an argument in the parking lot and that there was no indication the incident was domestic in nature.
Police described the suspect only as a man, possibly in his 30s, and said no further description was immediately available. No information on the victim was released.
Street closures were reported on Sam Rayburn Drive and Powell Lane between North I-35 and Georgian Drive.
The department confirmed that a search of the apartment where the suspect was believed to be hiding did not locate anyone, and first responder units began clearing the scene. Police said the suspect remains at large.