Overview
- Authorities updated the toll to 19 people struck by gunfire, with two still hospitalized including one in critical condition.
- Newly released body-camera and surveillance video show officers arriving within about a minute, being directed by bystanders to the suspect, and fatally shooting him after he fired at police.
- Police identified the shooter as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal who legally purchased a pistol and an AR-style rifle in 2017 and had a 2022 welfare check related to mental health.
- Investigators are examining a potential terrorism nexus based on the suspect’s clothing — a “Property of Allah” hoodie over a shirt with Iranian-flag imagery — and the timing of recent strikes on Iran, though motive remains unconfirmed.
- The three people killed were University of Texas student Savitha Shan, 21, former Texas Tech student Ryder Harrington, 19, and Jorge Pederson, 30, and officials credit the rapid police and EMS response with preventing further loss of life.