{"id":185537,"date":"2026-03-01T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185537\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:17:06","slug":"3-dead-14-hospitalized-in-shooting-on-sixth-street-suspect-killed-by-austin-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185537\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead, 14 hospitalized in shooting on Sixth Street; suspect killed by Austin police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people died and 14 people have been hospitalized in a shooting on Sixth Street in Austin early Sunday morning. The male suspect was killed by Austin police officers responding to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened at Buford&#8217;s, a bar on West Sixth and Rio Grande streets, said Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis at a 5 a.m. press conference. <\/p>\n<p>Austin-Travis County EMS received the call about the shooting at 1:59 a.m., and paramedics and officers were on the scene within 57 seconds attending to patients, said ATCEMS Chief Robert Luckritz. <\/p>\n<p>The male suspect was armed when police arrived, and three officers &#8220;returned fire,&#8221; killing him, Davis said. <\/p>\n<p>Luckritz said there were a total of 17 patients on the scene. Three were pronounced dead on scene, including the suspect. Of the 14 people taken to the hospital, three were in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p>APD initially posted on X at 3:46 a.m. that the incident was a &#8220;shoot\/stab hotshot incident with multiple people injured&#8221; and the suspect deceased. Police asked people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>Officials expect to share more information over the course of the day.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Austin Police officers are on scene investigating an Officer Involved Shooting in the 600 block of Rio Grande Street. The suspect is deceased. The incident originated as a shoot\/stab hotshot incident with multiple people injured. Please avoid the area. More information to follow.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rPlwTeEEZB\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/rPlwTeEEZB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Austin Police Department (@Austin_Police) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Austin_Police\/status\/2028044308285108252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people died and 14 people have been hospitalized in a shooting on Sixth Street in Austin early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47548,132,134,133,1140,672,95,2454],"class_list":{"0":"post-185537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-6th-street","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-injuries","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-shooting","15":"tag-sixth-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185537","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=185537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}