Overview
- Gunfire erupted outside Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden on West Sixth Street shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, leaving two victims dead and 14 people hospitalized.
- Police say the attacker circled in an SUV, fired a handgun through the window, then parked, exited with a rifle and continued shooting on foot.
- Three Austin officers engaged the gunman within about a minute of the first 911 call and fatally shot him, while EMS rushed victims to area hospitals; several are in critical condition.
- The FBI says items found on the suspect and in his SUV point to a possible terrorism nexus, and the Joint Terrorism Task Force is assisting; officials report no explosives were found.
- Multiple outlets identified the suspect as Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Senegal, and reported clothing with pro-Islamic and Iranian imagery, though authorities have not formally confirmed his identity or motive.