AUSTIN, Texas — Two men have been arrested in the shooting of a man near a downtown Austin gas station early Sunday morning, according to police.
Officers responded to reports of a shooting at a gas station in the 700 block of East 7th Street at about 2:12 a.m. and found a 27-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his upper left leg, according to the Austin Police Department.
Officers and bystanders gave the man first aid before Austin-Travis County EMS took him to a hospital. He was in critical but stable condition, police said.
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A preliminary investigation found the man and a group of people had been in a fight near East Sixth Street, police said. He was shot as the group was leaving in a vehicle.
Investigators identified the people involved, and officers later found two of them in a vehicle, police said. Officers recovered a gun from the vehicle.
Israel Ortega Jr., 21, and Jaivan Lee Antonio Ortega, 21, were arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said.
The investigation is ongoing.