The first incident began at 2:17 a.m. local time when police received reports of gunshots, Austin Police Chief of Staff Brian Manley said in a news conference.
He said a woman, believed to be in her 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Three
victims -- all women in their 30s -- were taken to University Medical
Center Brackenridge with gunshot wounds. One additional victim refused
treatment.
Police
say that there was a disturbance on Sixth Street, a popular nightlife
district, where the suspect pulled out a weapon and began firing into
the crowd.
The suspect is still at large, police said.
"As officers arrived, as you
can imagine, with this being shortly after 2 a.m., and the large crowds
we have on Sixth Street at this time, all the individuals leaving the
bars, it was a very chaotic scene," Manley said. "A lot of people
running in different directions with all the gunshots that were coming
out."
The second, unrelated, incident began just seven minutes later. Police got a call about a disturbance at a parking garage just blocks away from the first incident.
"One individual (there) did pull out a weapon and fire it at another individual," Manley said.
Witnesses
engaged the suspect, disarmed him and took him down, Manley said. The
suspect was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening
injuries.
Authorities in the Texas capital are asking those with videos of the incidents to send them to police.
Austin police
had earlier referred to the event as an "active shooter incident" in a
tweet. But Manley said the two separate incidents so close together
caused the confusion.
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