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3 minutes ago, austingirl said:

Why did they shut down Mopac at Spicewood Springs for a shooting at 183 and Ohlen?

Don't know, but I came up on it right as it happened.  Getting through that intersection was a master class in stupid Austin drivers.

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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Don't know, but I came up on it right as it happened.  Getting through that intersection was a master class in stupid Austin drivers.

Ugh. Guess I'm not leaving my house anytime soon.

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10 minutes ago, austingirl said:

Why did they shut down Mopac at Spicewood Springs for a shooting at 183 and Ohlen?

I heard they ended up catching the guy near the river further down Mopac.  If that's true, my best guess is he ditched his gun, and possibly other things, somewhere further north on Mopac, so they shut it down to gather the evidence (or simply find the weapon before someone else did).

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Outlet from the presser said 3 shot and killed in the parking lot. Then he stole a car and fled. Apparently crashed and stole another car from a VW dealer.

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Police say the suspect is a White male who appears to be 32 years old and has a history of mental illness and a criminal record.

Man.  We're gonna check all the boxes, seems like.

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Posted
3 hours ago, austingirl said:

Why did they shut down Mopac at Spicewood Springs for a shooting at 183 and Ohlen?

Did they shut it down for the shooting or was it just part of the general construction mess up there?

Posted (edited)
27 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Did they shut it down for the shooting or was it just part of the general construction mess up there?

For the shooting specifically. The updated KXAN article explained it.

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Police said the suspect stole a vehicle from the scene, drove away and crashed the vehicle. APD said on X that the 8000 block of MoPac southbound frontage road was shut down between Executive Center Drive and Anderson Lane.

KXAN was also at that scene where you could see a black SUV that had crashed into several parked vehicles and was resting on top of another.

The suspect then stole another vehicle and was later found by Austin Police in southeast Austin in the 2400 block of La Costa Court, where he was taken into custody — that is about 18.5 miles away from the scene of the shooting. 

 

 

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I couldn’t figure it out either but I was right there before it shut down. This was up on the hill on the service road.

I’m still trying to figure out how it was related to the shooting.

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, austingirl said:

AI, make me a map.

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Wow. Made it a long way

Will probably end up like the chainsaw guy and bus neck stabber. Crazy people they decline to prosecute due to mental illness until they eventually kill someone. 

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4 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Wow. Made it a long way

Will probably end up like the chainsaw guy and bus neck stabber. Crazy people they decline to prosecute due to mental illness until they eventually kill someone. 

My first thought was that this was the chainsaw guy who did it, or another guy I saw a video of on Reddit who was trying to BREAK INTO A GUN STORE by ramming a truck into it and was released on bond the next day. Like wtf, he’s on video trying to break into a gun store and taunting the cameras to catch him. 

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3 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Will Garza have him out by morning? 

I don't know who "him" is, but you seem to be implying murder suspects are released the next morning in Austin.

I hate putting words in other peoples' mouths, but is this what you're implying? I dunno.

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7 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Your link makes the polar opposite point of the one you seemingly were trying to make.

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When Garza’s office first came under fire earlier this month, the spotlight fell on two cases in which two murder suspects were freed on dramatically reduced bonds because they weren’t indicted within the 90-day timeline.

 

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Here’s the guy’s rap sheet. I’m frustrated with DA Garza but all of this guy’s offenses were before he Garza even took office. The offenses in Wilco happened when Republican DA Jana Duty was in office. Duty was such a shitty DA that she fucked up a murder trial and was sentenced to 10 days in Wilco Jail for contempt of court. I’m not trying to get CR here but it seems that in Central Texas we have a problem with DAs from BOTH political parties letting criminals off with lighter sentences for violent crimes. The 2016 felonies that occurred in Travis County happened under Democratic DA Rowdy Rosemary and the 2019 felony happened under Dem Margaret Moore. 
 

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1 hour ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Your link makes the polar opposite point of the one you seemingly were trying to make.

Much of the weeping and gnashing of teeth over bail is because we haven't expanded courts at all in Texas for decades despite the population doubling. Because of the right to a speedy trial, if they can't indict a person and bring them to trial then they kind of have no other choice. But nobody wants to pay for judicial benches and courts - just abandoned sections of border wall and vouchers for Christian schools

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1 hour ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Wasn’t a shaggy/surly’s wife carjacked at that Target a few years ago?

@Bob Lives! maybe? i think he had moved into my neighborhood, Allandale North/Wooten, like literally around the corner lol. i used to shop at that Target regularly, wow. 😳

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