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At least one person is dead after shots were fired Saturday evening at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Austin, Texas, officials said.
Authorities later told news outlets that the shooting occurred near or at the protests.
Austin senior Police Officer Katrina Ratcliff told CNN that officers found a man with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was later pronounced dead. No one else was injured.
A suspect in the case was detained and is cooperating with authorities, Ratcliff added.
“As we’re walking down passing Fourth Street, a blue car just come swerving out into the middle of the street almost runs over a bunch of protesters and everybody around starts like smacking the car trying to get him to slow down,” the witness said. “He pulls down his window and he fires three shots into the guy. From point-blank. No words no nothing. And then rolls up his window and zooms off.”
“And this gentleman got out of his car and started firing shots, and my son was shot three times,” she alleged.