US - Again and again it crazily spins: One Dead, Three In Hospital in Austin shootings

A woman has been killed and three people taken to hospital after shootings in downtown Austin, Texas.

The dead woman was in her 30s, said Captain Rick Rutledge from Austin's Emergency Medical Service.
Two more women and one man are in hospital with gunshot wounds, he added.
At least one of the shootings is understood to have happened outside Friends bar on East 6th Street as people were heading home in the early hours.


"Active shooter incident downtown, multiple victims. Stay away from downtown," Austin police said on Twitter at about 3am.

About half an hour later, police said there had been "separate shootings within the same area" but that both scenes had been secured.
Witness Dorian Santiago told a reliable source people were leaving bars to go home when the shootings happened.

"We heard five shots and then people started running crazy ... We don't hear any more shots ...The cops were running behind someone.

"There was a girl freaking out who was injured ... The other one was already on the floor - they were doing CPR to help her but it looked like she was already dead."
The shootings come after several major gun incidents in America.

On 12 June, 49 people were shot dead at an Orlando gay nightclub by a man who sympathised with Islamist extremist groups.
A military veteran then shot dead five police in Dallas on 7 July amid a demonstration over the killings of black men by police, and just over a week later three officers were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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