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TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas – One person is dead and another is injured after a shooting at a barber shop involving an off-duty Austin police officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Travis County barber shop shooting <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The shooting happened around 6 p.m. Friday in Travis County at a barber shop in the 1700 block of Crystal Bend Drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Travis County Sheriff’s Office deputies who responded found a man dead with apparent gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
A second person was found at a nearby home with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, the sheriff’s office reported Saturday, and was taken to a nearby hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Initial investigation showed that the dead man had opened fire in the shop, hitting the injured man, who was an employee. The injured employee ran to get help.\u00a0<\/p>\n
APD officer intervenes <\/p>\n
The off-duty Austin Police Department officer was at the barber shop during the shooting, and returned fire, killing the original shooter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we don’t know:<\/p>\n
The identities of those involved have not been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The motive of the shooter is not known.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
TCSO asks anyone who may have information about the incident to call the TCSO Tip Line at 512-854-1444<\/a> or Crime Stoppers at 512-472-8477<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article comes from the Travis County Sheriff’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n Travis County<\/a>Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas – One person is dead and another is injured after a shooting at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,223,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-174943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-travis-county","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}