Capturing Close to SXSW Leaves 4 Injured
4 individuals have been injured throughout a taking pictures in downtown Austin, Texas early this morning (March 20), Selection and Deadline level out. In an official press assertion concerning the incident, Austin Police confirmed that at 1:59 a.m. authorities responded to photographs fired within the 400 block of East sixth Avenue within the metropolis’s leisure district. Though the taking pictures passed off on the ultimate weekend of the 2022 South by Southwest competition, the incident didn’t happen at a SXSW venue or occasion, Deadline confirmed through a spokesperson. The 4 victims have been transported to native hospitals to be handled for minor accidents. Earlier as we speak, the Austin Police Division introduced through social media {that a} suspect associated to the taking pictures is presently in custody.
At the moment’s incident follows the same occasion that occurred throughout SXSW 2019, when a taking pictures on sixth avenue left one particular person injured. That taking pictures passed off close to the middle of exercise for SXSW, however not at a selected occasion or venue. Hours later, one other taking pictures passed off simply blocks away close to seventh Avenue and Interstate 35 Frontage Highway.
This 12 months’s SXSW marked the return of an in-person occasion following a COVID-19-related cancellation in 2020 and 2021’s digital iteration of the competition.