Six Dead in Texas Shooting Spree Over 8 Hours, Including Couple Discovered in Home at Grisly Scene; Suspect Charged With Capital Murder

Six people are dead after a series of shootings, lasting through the day and evening Tuesday in Austin and San Antonio. Police believe the killings are related.

The shootings started in the morning in Austin and extended into the evening.

The first victim was a school resource officer, shot just before 10:45 a.m. Tuesday.

A man and woman were found fatally shot in an Austin home a few hours later.

Then a bicyclist reported being shot just before 5 p.m. in South Austin. That person was expected to survive, police said.

Then, around 6 p.m., Austin police responded to a burglary call at another home. A man at the scene opened fire on police.

One of the officers was hit multiple times, sustaining non-life-threatening injuries, but the suspect sped away, interim Chief of Police Robin Henderson said at a news conference. 

Police chased the suspect, which ended in a crash, and the armed suspect was arrested.

Austin officials didn’t name the suspect but Shane James, 34, was booked into jail on four counts of capital murder just after 2:30 a.m. Travis County Jail records showed.

While the pursuit was underway, other officers went into the home where the burglary call came from. They found two dead inside.

Austin police contacted Bexar County officials and alerted them about the shootings and said the suspect had a connection to a home in their area.

Sheriff’s deputies went to a San Antonio home and saw a liquid leaking out of the residence. When they forced their way in, they found two dead people, believed to be a man and a woman in their 50s.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar described it as a “pretty grisly crime scene" at a news conference.