UPDATE
Aug 12, 2025 1:59 AM CDT
The three victims of Monday's shooting in a Target parking lot in Texas included two adults and one child, authorities say. A motive has not yet become clear, but authorities say a shooting was reported around 2:15pm and police arrived on the scene to find three people shot and a fourth person hurt. An adult and a child died in the parking lot, NBC News reports. The third victim died in a nearby hospital, and the fourth person was treated for unrelated injuries, KXAN reports. One of the dead is believed to have been the owner of the car the suspect allegedly stole before fleeing the scene; he is now in police custody. A motive is not yet clear.
Aug 11, 2025 5:22 PM CDT
Three people were shot to death outside a Target store in Texas on Monday afternoon, Austin officials said. ABC News reports that a 32-year-old male suspect is in custody after fleeing in a stolen car. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said police called to the store found three people in the parking lot with gunshot wounds. Two were pronounced dead at the scene, and the third was pronounced dead at a hospital, per NBC News. Police released no other information about the victims, per the AP. "This is a very sad day for Austin," Davis said.
The gunman stole a car from the parking lot, killing the driver, and drove away, police said. After crashing the stolen vehicle, the suspect stole another one from a car dealership, per ABC. Police found the suspect in the southern part of Austin. Officers used a Taser on him, officials said, and took the man into custody. Davis did not identify the suspect but said he "does have a mental health history." Employees at an auto shop next door said they locked the doors and hunkered down when they realized a shooting was taking place. One said he saw people running from their cars in the Target parking lot in a panic. In a post on X, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson called the attack "a sickening, cowardly act of gun violence."
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