Police have arrested three suspects after a string of vehicle thefts, gun thefts and 12 shootings throughout Austin on Saturday and Sunday, including at least two that occurred at local fire stations. At least four people were injured, city officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n
Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said in a Sunday press conference that two teenagers \u2014 a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old \u2014 are in custody in connection to a string of shootings that occurred throughout the city between just before 4 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday.\u00a0Austin police announced late Sunday night that Manor police arrested a third suspect.<\/p>\n
“Third suspect has been taken into custody by Manor PD,” the police department posted on social media at 9:53 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old has a warrant for theft of a gun from the same store that the 15-year-old stole a gun from Saturday, Davis said. The chief did not say from which store the guns were stolen. Davis said police were first alerted to a stolen vehicle at an apartment complex and later to the firearm theft, but investigators initially did not know the cases were connected.<\/p>\n
The incidents were reported predominantly in South and East Austin and included gunfire at two fire stations, apartment buildings and homes, Davis said. A fire truck was struck while firefighters were behind it, and officers went door to door at some homes and apartment buildings to check whether anyone inside had been hit. Police did not release the locations of all 12 incidents, saying that information will be released later Sunday or Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police located the two teenage suspects \u2014 both unidentified but described as young Hispanic males \u2014 in Manor and conducted a traffic stop, during which they ran away along with a third person, Davis said. Davis said the two in custody were caught on camera during several of the 12 shooting incidents, but she is unsure at which point the third person got involved or the extent of that person\u2019s involvement in the crimes.<\/p>\n
The two teenagers are accused of stealing at least four vehicles during the spree, Davis said.<\/p>\n
The victim who\u00a0was critically wounded got treated with blood at the scene before being taken to a trauma center, Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Rob\u00a0Luckritz said. Mayor Kirk Watson said that the injuries were serious but the person is in stable condition.<\/p>\n
The investigation is still ongoing, and police are unsure of perpetrator motives.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what motive would drive anybody to come and drive around senselessly in the city, in multiple parts of the city, shooting,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n
The pair will be booked into juvenile detention, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested three suspects after a string of vehicle thefts, gun thefts and 12 shootings throughout Austin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-649935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649935","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=649935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}