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<\/p>\nThe Brief<\/p>\n
A person has died after they were shot by a Texas DPS trooper in Austin<\/p>\n
The suspect had stolen an ambulance in Fort Worth and evaded troopers in Austin<\/p>\n
Officials say the upper deck on I-35 will be closed for some time as the investigation continues<\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas – A person who stole a Fort Worth ambulance and evaded Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on a chase in Austin has died.<\/p>\n
The upper deck on I-35 will remain closed for some time as the investigation into the incident continues.<\/p>\n
What happened on I-35 in Austin?<\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
Texas DPS says that at around 6:30 a.m., troopers were notified about a stolen Fort Worth Fire\/EMS ambulance traveling southbound on I-35 in Williamson County.<\/p>\n
A DPS trooper located the ambulance and tried to conduct a traffic stop. Emergency lights were activated, but officials say the driver refused to stop and began actively evading law enforcement.<\/p>\n
Officials say the driver continued southbound on I-35 and around Highway 290 area in Austin, where the driver began intentionally ramming multiple vehicles.<\/p>\n
Troopers attempted a pit maneuver, but the ambulance continued to evade and ram vehicles as it got onto the I-35 upper deck.<\/p>\n
Officials say that’s when a trooper fired their gun at the driver. The driver died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Austin-Travis County EMS transported one person to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
The Texas Rangers are investigating.<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
The Fort Worth Fire Department confirmed in a statement that one of its ambulances was stolen from Station 4 located at 2954 Old Mansfield Road in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
Officials said they can only confirm the ambulance was stolen and will release more information as they piece together details of the incident with the multiple agencies involved.<\/p>\n
What you can do<\/p>\n
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Officials say the upper deck of I-35 where the incident happened will be closed for some time as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n
People are asked to avoid the area and find alternate routes.<\/p>\n
Drivers in Austin speak about what they saw<\/p>\n
Local perspective<\/p>\n
“I just looked over to the southbound lanes, and I saw some police and emergency lights going, and I saw that there were at least two DPS officers following a white and blue ambulance,” Adrian Swain said.<\/p>\n
Adrian Swain said that is what he saw as he was heading from South Austin to Round Rock.<\/p>\n
“I knew it wasn’t a Travis County ambulance, it wasn’t from here. But I was wondering why those officers were following that ambulance with the lights on and the ambulance didn’t have its emergency lights on,” Swain said.<\/p>\n
Then Swain had a thought: “I said, I hope nobody stole that, that ambulance, and I was joking in my mind.”<\/p>\n
For drivers who happened to be on I-35 Thursday morning, the chaos was hard to miss.<\/p>\n
“It was probably, I want to say, probably the most chaotic thing I’ve seen while driving somewhere regarding, you know, first responders responding to something,” Hillary said.<\/p>\n
Hillary said she was coming from U.S. 290 and taking the exit for I-35 South when she got an alert about police activity.<\/p>\n
“It’s kind of a little scary because you don’t really know exactly what you’re continuing to drive towards,” Hillary said.<\/p>\n
Swain said he is still processing what he saw.<\/p>\n
“It’s been crazy lately in Austin, Texas,” Swain said.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information from Austin Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety and from interviews conducted by FOX 7 Austin’s Meredith Aldis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A person has died after they were shot by a Texas DPS trooper in Austin The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[142319,4761,121359,116,118,117,4522,27,2785],"class_list":["post-406432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-adrian-swain","tag-austin-police-department","tag-emergency-lights","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-south-austin","tag-texas","tag-texas-dps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406432","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=406432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}