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Students gather for a candlelight vigil for the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting<\/p>\n
Police have released video footage and recordings of 911 emergency calls from the hours surrounding the moment a gunman opened fire outside a bar in Austin – an attack being investigated as a potential act of “terrorism”.<\/p>\n
“There’s people shot. We need help right now,” one caller is heard telling police.<\/p>\n
Footage from police body-cameras shows the chaotic scene as officers advance on the suspect, eventually shooting him to stop the attack. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis described the video as “difficult to see”.<\/p>\n
Three people were killed and 16 injured in the shooting over the same weekend the US launched strikes on Iran, fuelling fears of violent retaliation against Americans.<\/p>\n
Ryder Harrington, 19, Savitha Shan, 21, Jorge Pederson, 30, were killed outside the bar, which is popular with University of Texas students.<\/p>\n
The suspect has been named as Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalised American citizen born in Senegal. Authorities have not commented on his motive.<\/p>\n
Investigators searched the gunman’s home and found an Iranian flag and pictures of Iranian leaders, US media reported.<\/p>\n
CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, reports that the gunman was wearing a shirt that resembles the Iranian flag under his hoodie.<\/p>\n
Officials say the gunman started firing from his car with a pistol before stepping out and using an AR-15 rifle to attack bystanders.<\/p>\n
According to a news release, police responded to the scene within 57 seconds of 911 calls being made to emergency services.<\/p>\n
In a news conference on Thursday, Austin police released the footage, as well as audio of the 911 emergency calls.<\/p>\n
“As you can see, this was a chaotic scene,” Police Chief Lisa Davis told reporters, adding that it was “overwhelming for many”.<\/p>\n
She praised officers for their response, and how they immediately began applying tourniquets to victims after the gunfight ended.<\/p>\n
The disturbing video shows the suspect wearing a hoodie with the words “Property of Allah” as he fires with a semi-automatic rifle.<\/p>\n
The FBI has said it is looking into whether there was a “nexus to terrorism”.<\/p>\n
Asked about the FBI, she said investigators are still examining the gunman’s “digital evidence”.<\/p>\n
“We are not ready to talk about exactly what that nexus is,” she said, praising the decision to bring in the FBI to assist her investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students gather for a candlelight vigil for the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting Police have released video footage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[39174,76212,132,134,133,4921,76213,76214,8070,54623],"class_list":{"0":"post-192229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-911-calls","9":"tag-911-emergency-calls","10":"tag-austin","11":"tag-austin-headlines","12":"tag-austin-news","13":"tag-austin-police","14":"tag-chaotic-scene","15":"tag-gunman-opened-fire","16":"tag-lisa-davis","17":"tag-police-chief"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192229","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=192229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}