Shooting Near Pflugerville Leaves Man Dead, Another Injured

PFLUGERVILLE, TX -- Police continue to investigate a shooting early Saturday morning that left one person dead and another injured.

The incident stems from an emergency call made to police at around 3 a.m. on Saturday. A driver along the 300 block of Wells Branch Parkway saw a man on the road who appeared to be injured and pulled over to investigate, police told the Austin American-Statesman.

While on the phone with police, the same caller spotted a vehicle up the road and reasoned the injured man may have been hit by the vehicle. Instead, responding officers found a man with gunshot wounds in the driver's seat of the vehicle. The victim, a Hispanic man in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Statesman reported.

Medics with the Austin-Travis County EMS said the injured man sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Detectives from the Pflugerville police and Travis County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene before turning the case over to the Austin Police Department given the jurisdiction of the incident, the newspaper noted. The shooting took place in Northeast Austin on the outskirts of Pflugerville.

Police have scant details to provide, but believe another person in a separate are may have been involved.

Police now are asking for anyone who might have information on the incident to call 911. The road was closed for an extended period of time Saturday morning to accommodate the police investigation.

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