Austin police are looking for the person who opened fire on a crowd on Sixth Street in a shooting that killed one woman and injured four other people early Sunday.
“It was a very chaotic scene,” Austin police Chief of Staff Brian Manley said at a news conference shortly before 5 a.m. “A lot of people running in different directions with all the gunshots coming out.”
The shooting was reported at 2:17 a.m. in the 200 block of East Sixth Street — two blocks east of Congress Avenue in the heart of the entertainment district just as patrons were leaving bars at closing time.
Manley said that a woman in her 30s was killed and that the incident involved a person shooting into a crowd.
The four others injured, all women, are expected to survive, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo offered condolences Sunday morning to the families and friends of the woman killed and four others injured in an overnight shooting on Sixth Street.
“On behalf of the Austin Police Department, we wish to extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the young woman who lost her life to this senseless act of violence and wishes for a speedy recovery to the individuals wounded,” Acevedo said in a statement.
The suspect remains outstanding.
