Austin Bar Shooting Probed as Possible Terrorism After Police Kill Gunman

Overview

• Officials report three dead, including the shooter, and 14 wounded, with at least three people in critical condition.
• The attacker fired from an SUV and then on foot with a rifle outside Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden before officers shot him within about a minute.
• The FBI says indicia found on the individual and in his vehicle point to a potential terrorism link, but investigators have not determined a motive.
• Sources have identified the suspect as Ndiaga Diagne, a Senegal-born naturalized U.S. citizen, and reported a Quran and clothing referencing Allah and Iran-themed imagery, details that remain under verification.
• Texas reinforced security at energy sites, ports and the border, bomb-squad checks found no explosives, and the White House was briefed.