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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Newly released police body camera footage shows bargoers and pedestrians fleeing and ducking for cover in the moments after a gunman began firing<\/a> outside a Texas bar, leaving three dead in what is being investigated as potential terrorism.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody down!\u201d one officer yells. \u201cWhere is he?\u201d<\/p>\n

The terrifying moments captured on video by officers and surveillance cameras that were released Thursday show how the shooting that wounded more than a dozen others unfolded quickly early Sunday in downtown Austin\u2019s entertainment district.<\/p>\n

Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said officers arrived within 56 seconds of the first 911 call, shooting and killing the suspect after he fired at police.<\/p>\n

Davis said the investigation is ongoing and would not discuss a possible motive for the shooting that erupted a day after the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The FBI has said it\u2019s investigating the shooting as a potential act of terrorism and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the gunman was wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and bearing the words \u201cProperty of Allah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police have identified the gunman as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne<\/a> and say he legally bought the pistol and rifle that he used in the attack outside Buford\u2019s Backyard Beer Garden. The venue is on Sixth Street, a nightlife destination filled with bars and music clubs close to the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

Authorities now know 19 people were hit by gunfire, including the three who died, Davis said Thursday. One person remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n

Most of those who were shot were outside the bar, including one victim who was waiting for a ride, she said.<\/p>\n

Screaming and shouts of \u201cget down\u201d can be heard on a 911 call released Thursday. \u201cThere has been a shooting at Buford\u2019s,\u201d one caller said. \u201dThere are people dead over here. We need help right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diagne was not on the radar<\/a> of authorities before he opened fire early Sunday. Davis said investigators have found he was the subject of a mental health-related welfare check, possibly in 2022, by an agency elsewhere.<\/p>\n

He fired the first shots from his SUV then parked his vehicle and emerged with a rifle, police said. He shot another person before officers rushed to the intersection and shot and killed him, Davis said.<\/p>\n

Jorge Pederson, 30, an aspiring mixed martial arts fighter, died from his gunshot wounds Monday. He had just moved to Texas from Minnesota. His former gym, the Academy Martial Arts Gym, said in a Facebook post<\/a> that he brought \u201clight and joy into the grueling work of training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also killed were 21-year-old Savitha Shan and 19-year-old Ryder Harrington.<\/p>\n

Shan, a business student at the University of Texas at Austin, had a job waiting for her at a consulting firm, her family said in a statement released through the university. It said she was an only child and described her death as \u201cprofoundly unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harrington had attended Texas Tech University through last fall, and his former fraternity brothers at Beta Theta Pi recalled in an Instagram post<\/a> his ability to \u201cmake ordinary days unforgettable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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