Two teenagers were among three people arrested after at least a dozen apparently random drive-by shootings in Austin, Texas, over the weekend left four people injured, the authorities said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The teenage boys, 15 and 17, were arrested in connection with at least 12 separate drive-by shootings in the city\u2019s south and east on Saturday and Sunday, the Austin Police Department said. A third person was taken into custody on Sunday night. <\/p>\n
Shots had been fired into two fire stations, two apartment buildings and other houses, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said at a news conference on Sunday. The three people who were arrested had run from a car that had been stopped by police, according to Chief Davis. <\/p>\n
Four people were injured, one of them critically, officials said.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s mayor, Kirk Watson, said during an earlier news briefing on Sunday that there was no apparent motive. \u201cIn fact, these actions appear to be random,\u201d Mr. Watson said.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old had stolen a gun from a store on Saturday, Chief Davis said, adding that there was a warrant for the 17-year-old for the theft of a gun from the same store. The teenagers also stole over four vehicles, she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are dangerous kids out causing havoc in this city, and they had to be taken into custody, and they were, safely,\u201d Chief Davis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers were among three people arrested after at least a dozen apparently random drive-by shootings in Austin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,78787,134,133,109330],"class_list":["post-300854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-tex","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-robberies-and-thefts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300854","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=300854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}