Shootings & Mass Violence

Police have confirmed the identity of the suspected shooter, but haven't yet confirmed identities of victims in the ongoing investigation.

The shooting happened at Buford's, a bar on West Sixth and Rio Grande streets, early Sunday morning. The suspect was among the dead; he was shot by Austin police officers, Police Chief Lisa Davis said.

The involvement of federal immigration agents in the fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez on South Padre Island in March had not been disclosed in initial reports.

A Nueces County jury acquitted former Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales on all charges, ending the first criminal case tied to the law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.

Fort Worth police are investigating two shootings they say are connected where two people were killed, including a teenage girl.

Denton police report that a 31-year-old man fatally shot on Friday was the suspected shooter’s ex-romantic partner, and officers had prior encounters with them.

Jose Andres Bordones Molina, one of three detainees shot when a gunman opened fire on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, is now at a detention center south of Fort Worth. He is the lone survivor of the shooting.

Norlan Guzman Fuentes, 37, was the detainee killed in a shooting at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, according to the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office. At least one other victim remains hospitalized in "grave condition," according to his family.

Wednesday's fatal shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas is at least the third instance of immigration enforcement-related violence in Texas this year.

The shooter is also dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement characterized the shooting as a political attack against law enforcement, though no ICE agents were injured in the shooting.

Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster, culture warrior and ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday during one of his trademark public appearances at a college in Utah. He was 31.

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.