{"id":188279,"date":"2026-03-03T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188279\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:19:07","slug":"austin-shooting-update-as-abbott-evaluates-sleeper-cell-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188279\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Shooting Update as Abbott Evaluates Sleeper Cell Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the state is taking the possibility of the Austin shooting being terrorist activity \u201cseriously\u201d and that it may have been a sleeper cell operation linked to the war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/austin-mass-shooting-leaves-three-dead-14-hospitalized-11600686\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">At least three people died and 14 were hospitalized<\/a> when a gunman opened fire outside a bar in Austin, Texas, in the early hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it was probing a potential link to terrorism and, on Monday, Abbott said the state of Texas is \u201ctaking seriously the possibility of terrorist activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">\u201cExactly what happened here in Austin, Texas, and you oftentimes see when there\u2019s a war breaking out like this, where the United States may be going against a country like Iran, that you could have either sleeper cells or lone wolfs acting,\u201d he told Fox Business\u2019s Mornings with Maria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">He added that he had deployed more Texas Department of Public Safety Officers and the Texas National Guard patrol certain areas considered sensitive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This is a developing story \u2013 more to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"11610489\" alt=\"\" caption=\"The Austin Police Department and the FBI investigate a shooting at Buford's on 6th Street on Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Austin, Texas.\" credit=\"\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[&quot;AP&quot;]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"6048\" height=\"4024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26060561690822_f62e97.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the state is taking the possibility of the Austin shooting being terrorist activity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,31231,7096,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-188279","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-iran","12":"tag-terrorism","13":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188279","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=188279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}