Austin Mass-Shooting: 1 Woman Killed, Multiple Injured

Austin mass-shooting. One woman was killed and three people were hospitalised with bullet wounds in overnight shooting incidents in the Texas capital of Austin, emergency officials said on social media early today.

Austin police said in a message on Twitter there had been “separate shootings within the same area” of the city’s downtown, adding: “Both scenes are secure at this time.”

It is thought a woman, believed to be in her 30s, died after being shot.

Austin Police department confirmed there are “multiple casualties”, and at least three other people are thought to have been wounded.

Local media are reporting that among the injured are two women and one man.

It is unclear how serious their injuries are.

The incident unfolded near San Jacinto Boulevard & E 6th Street, a popular clubbing district, around 3am local time on Sunday morning.

One of the scenes of the shooting is said to be the Friends Bar.

The shootings follow several major acts of gun violence in the United States over the past several weeks.

On 12 June, a gunman who sympathised with Islamist extremist groups killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.

On 7 July, a US military veteran shot and killed five police officers in Dallas in the deadliest day for US law enforcement since the 11 September, 2001, attacks. Just over a week later another gunman killed three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Both attackers were killed by police.

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