Three people are dead and 17 others were injured in a mass shooting early Sunday at Buford\u2019s bar on West Sixth Street in downtown Austin, officials said.<\/p>\n
Among the dead was a suspected gunman who was shot by officers, officials\u00a0said during a news conference Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police Chief Lisa Davis said officers found an active shooter when they arrived at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThree of our officers returned fire, killing the suspect,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n
Davis said that police were promptly able to respond to the shooting due to their presence on East Sixth Street, the city\u2019s liveliest strip of bars and restaurants. She did not immediately offer a more detailed timeline of events.<\/p>\n
Austin EMS Chief Rob Luckritz said that three of the 14 individuals taken to hospitals were in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The FBI has joined the Austin Police Department in the investigation into the shooting, authorities confirmed. As of 5:30 a.m., police were processing an expansive scene, including trying to collect security video in the area and talking to any patrons or witnesses inside and outside the bar.<\/p>\n
Mayor Kirk Watson praised first responders for their prompt arrival at the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very thankful for the speed with which our officials responded to this,\u201d Watson said. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question: it saved lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
A few employees of Buford\u2019s were gathered outside at 5 a.m. but declined to comment. A former manager, Scott Yancy, hugged one of the workers and burst out in tears.<\/p>\n
Yancy said no one at Buford\u2019s had been injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so glad everyone is OK,\u201d\u00a0Yancy said.<\/p>\n
\u2014 This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people are dead and 17 others were injured in a mass shooting early Sunday at Buford\u2019s bar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-497432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}