Overnight Shooting In East Austin Leaves One Dead, Another Injured

EAST AUSTIN, TX -- Police on Sunday continue searching for a suspect in an overnight shooting that left a man dead on the city's East Side.

Police responded to a report of shots fired at the Harvard Place Apartments at 51st Street and Manor Road at 2:25 a.m. on Sunday. By the time police arrived at the scene, a man believed to be in his 30s was found suffering from gunshot wounds, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

The victim was taken to University Medical Center Brackenridge, but later died. The identity of the man has not been released.

Sunday's incident was the second fatal shooting in East Austin in just three days. Last Thursday, police responded to the 1800 block of Elmira Road at 9:30 p.m. after reports of gunfire there. In that incident, a man in his 20s died at the scene and another was transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge for treatment of injuries.

And on Aug. 8, another shooting in North Austin left a woman in her 40s dead and three others injured. Police responded to the 900 block of Wagon Trail for that incident, finding an unresponsive woman inside a building who died at the scene. Three other people were found injured at the scene, and a search for suspects continues.

On July 31, anothershooting on Sixth Streetoccurred that left a woman dead and four others injured. Police later arrested Endicott McCray, 24, as the alleged shooter, after law enforcement officials in Atlanta notified local police they had located him there. The shooting occurred shortly after 2 a.m. in the 200 block of East Sixth Street, a stone's throw away from Congress Avenue in downtown Austin.