A shooting in Austin that killed two people and injured 14 others may be tied to terrorism, according to officials.<\/p>\n
The alleged shooter was also killed, making the death toll at least three. Officials said items that were found on the alleged shooter and in the vehicle indicate a potential tie to terrorism.<\/p>\n
Police responded to reports of a male shooting at\u00a0Buford\u2019s Backyard Beer Garden \u2014 near the University of Texas-Austin \u2014 just before 2 a.m.<\/p>\n
Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said the suspect, who was driving a large SUV, circled the block several times before stopping, turning on the SUV’s hazard lights, and firing a handgun.\u00a0Police said he then parked near Wood Street, got out, and continued shooting with a pistol and later a rifle as he walked east on Sixth Street. <\/p>\n
Three officers who were patrolling the entertainment district responded to the scene in 57 seconds, confronted the gunman and \u201creturned fire,\u201d killing the unidentified suspect.<\/p>\n
The FBI\u2019s Joint Terrorism Task Force has joined the investigation. <\/p>\n
This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooting in Austin that killed two people and injured 14 others may be tied to terrorism, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,56,66,223,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-185743","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-houston","12":"tag-local","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185743","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=185743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}