{"id":185637,"date":"2026-03-01T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185637\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:36:20","slug":"3-dead-14-injured-after-shooting-at-a-bar-in-austin-texas-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185637\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead, 14 injured after shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Authorities say three people were killed and 14 others were wounded after a shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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\u2019s, a popular beer garden in the city\u2019s entertainment district.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"An Austin police officer guards the scene on West 6th Street at West Avenue after a shooting,...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/XCZ7OLELDJEQHBYG73RKO7CRAI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" \/>An Austin police officer guards the scene on West 6th Street at West Avenue after a shooting, Sunday March 1, 2026, in Austin, Texas.(Ricardo B. Brazziell | Ricardo B. Brazziell\/Austin American-Statesman via AP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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 class=\"text | article-text\">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 class=\"text | article-text\">\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 class=\"text | article-text\">Austin Mayor Kirk Watson praised the rapid response by police and rescuers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey definitely saved lives,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Authorities say three people were killed and 14 others were wounded after a shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74096,15832,32745,5120,74098,74097,27,29,74095,28,47320],"class_list":{"0":"post-185637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-austin-mass-shooting","9":"tag-austin-shooting","10":"tag-bar-shooting","11":"tag-mass-shooting","12":"tag-mass-shooting-austin","13":"tag-mass-shooting-texas","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-texas-headlines","16":"tag-texas-mass-shooting","17":"tag-texas-news","18":"tag-texas-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185637","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=185637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}