{"id":187094,"date":"2026-03-02T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187094\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:47:09","slug":"suspect-in-austin-bar-mass-shooting-was-former-san-antonio-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187094\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Austin bar mass shooting was former San Antonio resident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RepublicanRepublican and Democratic officials have offered vastly different responses to the Austin mass shooting. Credit: Shutterstock \/ Schmidt_Alex<\/p>\n

The suspect who killed 3 and injured another 14 at a popular college bar in Austin over the weekend is a former San Antonio resident, KSAT reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ndiaga Diange, 53, along with his wife and two kids, moved from New York to San Antonio in 2017 in search of more space for their family, according to KSAT. He\u2019s reportedly a naturalized citizen originally from Senegal. <\/p>\n

However, the couple divorced in 2022, and Diange relocated to Pflugerville, where he lived at the time of the shooting, media reports show. Diange\u2019s ex-wife told ABC News she hadn\u2019t spoken to him in more than four years, and had no prior knowledge of the shooting.<\/p>\n

She also told ABC that Diange was religious but didn\u2019t elaborate.<\/p>\n

The new information comes at the FBI and Department of Homeland Security continue to investigate the incident as a possible act of terrorism possibly executed in response to U.S.-Israel missile attacks against Iran over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>, citing anonymous sources, reports that Diange was wearing a hoodie that read \u201cProperty of Allah\u201d over a T-shirt bearing an Iranian flag design when he opened fire at Buford\u2019s Backyard Beer Garden on West 6th Street early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Officers reportedly also found a Quran in his car, the Post reports. <\/p>\n

Officials haven\u2019t released the identities of the victims. However, University of Texas at Austin President Jim Davis, in a statement, said the shooting \u201cimpacted\u201d members of the \u201cLonghorn family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans and Democrats have voiced vastly different responses to the tragedy. Conservatives, including Gov. Greg Abbott, blamed immigration. <\/p>\n

\u201cAllowing unvetted immigrants who are hostile to America, who are loyal to our adversaries like Iran, must end,\u201d Abbott tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Diange first entered the U.S. in 2000 on a tourist visa, according to DHS. He reportedly became a lawful permanent resident six years later after marrying a U.S. citizen. He became a naturalized citizen in 2013.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat whose district includes Uvalde, blamed Republicans\u2019 lack of action on gun control for the tragedy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have any type of legislation in Texas that keeps guns out of the hands of people that shouldn\u2019t have them, and that is entirely on Republican policies \u2014 people that control this state that have put us in harm\u2019s way and kept us in harm\u2019s way,\u201d Gutierrez told the Current. \u201cEach time we have one of these events happen, Republicans fail to act to help people in this community on this major, important issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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