Multiple casualties in separate shooting incidents in Texas
Just over a month before she was set to marry her fiancee, a California woman was killed early Sunday when gunfire broke out on a crowded street in downtown Austin.
The suspect in this shooting is still at large and police are conducting an investigation.
APD Police Chief Art Acevedo released a statement Sunday morning following the shootings.
One woman dead and four others wounded in a shooting in Downtown, Austin early Monday morning.
Her brother, Ricky Moultrie, of Las Vegas, told the Austin American-Statesman his sister had traveled to Austin to visit her fiance’s family. Authorities have not identified the victims. One other person refused treatment, he said. The suspect fired into a crowd on 6th Street, police said, adding that it is unknown if the shooter had a connection with any of the victims.
A man was transported to the hospital after that incident, but his condition is not known. He was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after onlookers, in a bold move, worked to wrestle the firearm from the shooter, and were able to successfully disarm him.
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“We transported three additional patients to UMC Brackenridge”. The shooting is the latest of a deadly streak of gun battles taken in the streets of many cities around the United States in the last few months.
Teqnika Moultrie was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting, which occurred around 2:15 a.m.in the 200 block of East Sixth Street, according to the Austin Police Department.
The Austin Police Department published messages on Twitter to announce the incident. They later determined the two incidents were unrelated. Police were attempting to collect video from the scene, he said.
No additional information was immediately available.
“We have multiple individuals, witnesses, that we are now interviewing”, he said.
Multiple victims have been reported after separate shooting incidents in the centre of Austin, Texas.