{"id":185576,"date":"2026-03-01T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185576\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:05:08","slug":"3-dead-14-injured-after-shooting-at-a-bar-in-austin-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185576\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead, 14 injured after shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Authorities say three people were killed and 14 others were wounded after a shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said at a press conference early Sunday that police received a call for reports of a \u201cmale shooting\u201d at Buford&#8217;s, a popular beer garden in the city&#8217;s entertainment district.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived at the scene, they confronted a man with a gun and then \u201creturned fire, killing the suspect,\u201d Davis said. <\/p>\n<p>EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said three people were found dead at the scene and 14 people were injured and transported to hospitals. Of those injured, three were in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received a call at 1:39 a.m. and within 57 seconds, the first paramedics and officers were on scene actively treating the patients,\u201d Luckritz said.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Mayor Kirk Watson praised the rapid response by police and rescuers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey definitely saved lives,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"An Austin police officer guards the scene on West 6th...\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433.125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An Austin police officer guards the scene on West 6th Street at West Avenue after a shooting, Sunday March 1, 2026, in Austin, Texas. Credit: AP\/Jay Janner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Authorities say three people were killed and 14 others were wounded after a shooting at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5291,132,134,133,294,20637,991],"class_list":{"0":"post-185576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-ap-a-wire","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-top-ap-news","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185576","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=185576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}