{"id":191910,"date":"2026-03-05T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/191910\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:23:33","slug":"austin-texas-bar-shooting-victim-had-ties-to-rochester-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/191910\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Texas Bar Shooting Victim Had Ties to Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News<\/a>) –\u00a0One of the victims of the mass shooting<\/a> last weekend at a bar in Austin, Texas, was a former Minnesota man with ties to Rochester.<\/a><\/p>\n

Austin, Texas, police say 30-year-old Jorge Pederson and two others were fatally shot early Sunday by a gunman who was later shot and killed by officers. The Associated Press <\/a>reports that the FBI <\/a>is investigating the killings as a potential act of terrorism inspired by U.S. airstrikes on Iran. The AP also reported that the suspect’s clothing included an Iranian flag design.<\/p>\n

Photo by Brandon Bell\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Photo by Brandon Bell\/Getty ImagesFought For Rochester-Based MMA Organization<\/p>\n

Rochester-based Med City Fighting Championships <\/a>posted on Facebook that Pederson was a mixed martial arts fighter for the MMA promotion. The social media post says he was \u201cone of the people on our first card\u201d and describes him as a fantastic fighter.<\/p>\n

The organization went on to say he was \u201cone of our favorite people to interact with throughout the years of our existence. Our condolences to all of his friends and family. It was an honor to have known him.\u201d<\/p>\n

An online fundraiser <\/a>has been created to benefit his family and help pay for funeral expenses.<\/p>\n

More Minnesota News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

2026 Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Performers<\/p>\n

Here is the schedule of all of the performing acts that will take the Grandstand stage at the Minnesota State Fair in 2026. As more acts are announced, we’ll update this schedule.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Nick Cooper – TSM Duluth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) –\u00a0One of the victims of the mass shooting last weekend at a bar in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,3646,251,61543,95],"class_list":["post-191910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-fbi","tag-local-news","tag-rochester-minnesota","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191910","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=191910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}