AUSTIN — Federal and local law enforcement officials were searching early on Monday for a motive after a deadly mass shooting at an Austin, Texas, bar early on Sunday.
The FBI said on Sunday it was investigating a possible terrorism motive for the shooting, which began outside a bar and which left two people dead and more than a dozen others injured, according to officials.
Members of the FBI conduct an investigation near Buford’s bar in downtown on March 01, 2026 in Austin, Texas.
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The suspected gunman was killed in a confrontation with police officers, who were already staged in the city’s entertainment district when the shooting broke out, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said at a news conference on Sunday.
The suspect was identified as Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Senegal, sources with knowledge of the matter told ABC News.
Davis said the suspect was living in Pflugerville, Texas.
The suspect was wearing clothing that referenced Allah and a T-shirt that referenced Iran, with an Iranian flag underneath the word, according to multiple law enforcement officials.
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