{"id":185443,"date":"2026-03-01T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185443\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:52:10","slug":"downtown-austin-heavy-police-presence-near-bufords-on-west-6th-street-amid-mass-shooting-reports-absolute-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185443\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Austin: Heavy police presence near Buford&#8217;s on West 6th Street amid mass shooting reports; &#8216;absolute chaos&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">A heavy police response was seen near Buford\u2019s Backyard Beer Garden on West\u202f6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas, following unconfirmed reports of a mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo-1532077795300-c4b487f601f6_1771273508418_1771273525490_1772357125621.jpg\" alt=\"Police presence seen near Buford\u2019s Backyard Beer Garden on West\u202f6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas. (Unsplash)\" title=\"Police presence seen near Buford\u2019s Backyard Beer Garden on West\u202f6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas. (Unsplash)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Police presence seen near Buford\u2019s Backyard Beer Garden on West\u202f6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas. (Unsplash)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">One local resident, citing radio traffic, posted on Facebook that there are multiple patients, with CPR reportedly in progress on at least one individual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Local authorities have not yet confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Several local residents and social media users reported chaotic scenes and heavy police activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">One person wrote, &#8220;My son was caught in a mass shooting in Austin tx pray please saints. He is safe but chaos on the streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Another added, &#8220;There was a shooting where I was tonight pray for the people in Austin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">A third person reported, &#8220;Literally walked out of Mayfair in downtown Austin and there\u2019s a mass shooting or some s&#8212; happening out here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Another wrote, &#8220;Shooting in Downtown Austin at Buford\u2019s let\u2019s hope we don\u2019t see a whole bunch of these pop up all of a sudden. My advice to the wind. Avoid crowded public places.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Another person reported, \u201cMy friend is down there and she says someone opened fired in with an AR 15, at least 2 deceased, sounded like 13 or so shot, medics currently working. Sounds like the situation is secured but shooter not yet caught.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heavy police response was seen near Buford\u2019s Backyard Beer Garden on West\u202f6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,15832,74051,74053,74052,74054,74048],"class_list":{"0":"post-185443","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-austin-shooting","12":"tag-austin-shooting-today","13":"tag-bufords","14":"tag-downtown-austin-shooting","15":"tag-texas-shooting-today","16":"tag-west-6th-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185443","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=185443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}