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The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin.The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public, both within the Main Building tower and from the tower's observation deck.
During the shooting, the officer reported that he was taking gunfire, and another resource officer arrived to provide backup to the injured sergeant. The shooting caused the campus to go into lockdown, and the Austin Police Department responded at around 10:47. After, the school did a controlled release of its students.
Henderson said the first incident occurred around 10:43 a.m. when an Austin Independent School District officer was shot and injured. About an hour later, a double homicide was reported involving ...
Authorities in Texas said that six bodies were found at three different crime scenes in San Antonio and Austin. A link between the crimes was not established until the suspect, 34-year-old Shane ...
One person was killed and another was shot and critically wounded in a shooting at an Austin, Texas, shopping center Thursday, police said. The gunman was also found dead, Interim Police Chief ...
A grand jury has cleared three Texas police officers who fatally shot a man who shot and killed another officer and is believed to have killed his mother and brother. The man also wounded an ...
Police released body-worn camera footage and the initial 911 call audio that reported a fight inside a Southwest Austin apartment April 6. APD releases bodycam footage of officer shooting man at ...
Javier Ambler II was a 40-year-old black man, a postal worker, and the father of two sons. [4] [5] His mother described him as a gentle giant and a great father. [3]Ambler's father, who was in the U.S. Army, said that Javier "didn't know white from black or Latino from Filipino...